Julie Hardwick

Family Business

Litigation and the Political Economies of Daily Life in Early Modern France

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In seventeenth-century France, families were essential in the shaping of capitalism and the process of state formation. Exploring civil lawsuits in French cities, Family Business reveals the part that the management of everyday difficulties, in court and out, played in these wider phenomena.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780199558070
• ISBN-10: 0199558078
• Artikelnr.: 25901868

Autorenporträt

Julie Hardwick is Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Economies of marriage: managing marital status
* 2: Economies of justice: the possibilities of a people's court
* 3: Economies of family politics: litigation communities, subject, and
state
* 4: Economies of markets: borrowing, customary practices, and emerging
markets
* 5: Economies of violence: battery, neighborhood values, and legal
remedies
* Epilogue: family business on the cusp of the modern world
* Bibliography