The idea of commercial society in the Scottish enlightenment / Christopher J. Berry.
The most arresting aspect of the Scottish Enlightenment is its conception of commercial society as a distinct and distinctive social formation. Christopher Berry explains why Enlightenment thinkers considered commercial society to be wealthier and freer than earlier forms, and charts the contemporar...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2013.
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