Provincializing Global History: Money, Ideas, and Things in the Languedoc, 1680-1830

by James Livesey

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300237162
• ISBN13: 9780300237160
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"