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.
Author(s): James Gerard Livesey
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 224
City: New Haven
Cover
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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
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