Description |
1 online resource (x, 214 pages) |
Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: Small Changes: Credit, Debt, and Money in the Languedoc; CHATPER TWO: Local Ideas and Global Networks; CHATPER THREE: The Natural Province of Reason: Agronomy, Botany, and Subaltern Science; CHAPTER FOUR: The Swing Plow as an Eighteenth-Century Universal Machine; CHAPTER FIVE: Sovereignty, Politics, and Reason in the Post-Revolution; Conclusion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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 index |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 24, 2020) |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
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Economic history
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Politics and government
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SUBJECT |
Languedoc (France) -- History -- 18th century
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Languedoc (France) -- Economic conditions -- 17th century
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Languedoc (France) -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
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Languedoc (France) -- Politics and government -- 17th century
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Languedoc (France) -- Politics and government -- 18th century
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France -- Languedoc
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780300249521 |
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0300249527 |
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