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Provincializing global history : money, ideas, and things in the Languedoc, 1680-1830 / James Livesey.
LIBRA DC611.L319 L58 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Livesey, James, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Languedoc (France)--History--18th century.
- Languedoc (France).
- Languedoc (France)--Economic conditions--17th century.
- Languedoc (France)--Economic conditions--18th century.
- Languedoc (France)--Politics and government--17th century.
- Languedoc (France)--Politics and government--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- x, 214 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- A micro-history of eighteenth-century systemic change that places ordinary French lives alongside global advances. This book explores the eighteenth-century modernization of the coastal province of Languedoc. Mining a wealth of archival sources, James Livesey unveils how provincial elites, peasant households, and local political institutions began to implement such changes as establishing a credit system and building networks of natural historians and agronomical innovators who introduced new plants and farm machinery to the region. These practices were gradually embedded in daily life and gave rise to connections between the province and the broader world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300237162
- 9780300237160
- OCLC:
- 1090428850
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