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Provincializing Global History

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A microhistory of eighteenth-century systemic change that places ordinary French lives alongside global advances  Provincializing Global History explores the subtle transformation of the coastal province of the Languedoc in the eighteenth century. Mining a wealth of archival sources, James Livesey unveils how provincial elites and peasant households unwittingly created new practices. Managing local political institutions, establishing new credit systems, building networks of natural historians, and introducing new plants and farm machinery to the region opened up the inhabitants of the province to new norms and standards. The practices were gradually embedded in daily life and allowed the province to negotiate the new worlds of industrial society and capitalism.

Title Provincializing Global History : Money, Ideas, and Things in the Languedoc, 1680-1830 / James Gerard Livesey.
Publisher New Haven, CT : Yale University Press
Creation Date [2020]
Notes Also issued in print: 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In English.
Content Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Small Changes: Credit, Debt, and Money in the Languedoc -- Chapter Two. Local Ideas and Global Networks -- Chapter 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
Series Yale scholarship online
Extent 1 online resource (225 pages)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2020
National Library system number 997012410481605171
MARC RECORDS
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