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Provincializing global history : money, ideas, and things in the Languedoc, 1680-1830 / James Livesey

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Livesey, James
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
Physical Description
x, 214 pages ; 25 cm

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: ch. One Small Changes: Credit, Debt, and Money in the Languedoc -- ch. Two Local Ideas and Global Networks -- ch. Three The Natural Province of Reason: Agronomy, Botany, and Subaltern Science -- ch. Four The Swing Plow as an Eighteenth-Century Universal Machine -- ch. Five Sovereignty, Politics, and Reason in the Post-Revolution.
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.
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ISBN
0300237162 hardcover
9780300237160 hardcover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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