Family business : litigation and the political economies of daily life in early modern France / Julie Hardwick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hardwick, Julie, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Domestic relations courts--France--History.

Domestic relations courts.

Families--Economic aspects--France--History.

Families.

Family-owned business enterprises--France--History.

Family-owned business enterprises.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford [UK] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In seventeenth-century France, families were essential as both agents and objects in the shaping of capitalism and growth of powerful states - phenomena that were critical to the making of the modern world. For household members, neighbours, and authorities, the family business of the management of a broad range of tangible and intangible resources - law, borrowing, violence, and marital status among them - was central to political stability, economic productivity and culturalmorality. The business of family life involved relationships that could be intimate (family and neighbours), intermedia

Contents:

Economies of marriage : managing marital status

Economies of justice : the possibilities of a people's court

Economies of family politics : litigation communities, subject, and state

Economies of markets : borrowing, customary practices, and emerging markets

Economies of violence : battery, neighbourhood values, and legal remedies.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-247) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612349041

0-19-157023-0

1-282-34904-X

OCLC:

463183421