Provincializing Global History: Money, Ideas, and Things in the Languedoc, 1680-1830
James Livesey
Abstract
This book explores the subtle transformation of the coastal province of the Languedoc in the eighteenth century. Mining a wealth of archival sources, the book 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 in ... More
Keywords: Languedoc, provincial elites, peasant households, industrial society, capitalism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300237160 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: May 2020 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300237160.001.0001 |
