Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738183298
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 315
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Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738183298
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 315
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The History of Enfield, Connecticut ...
Author: Francis Olcott AllenPublisher:
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Category : Enfield (Conn. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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The Land and the Loom
Author: Liana VardiPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In the modern imagination the peasant survives as a creature of the land, suspicious of the outside world and resistant to change, either the repository of pristine innocence and virtue or the manifestation of everything nasty, brutish, and at best dull. The Land and the Loom replaces this picture with a richly textured, deeply researched portrait of the peasant's life and world in northern France in the early modern period. Supported by evidence culled from parish registers, notarial records, and judicial archives, this masterful depiction of village life, detailing the development of the linen weaving trade in Montigny, revises accepted notions of the peasant's place in rural industry. The peasants emerging from Liana Vardi's study are not the figures of tradition, driven solely by symbolic attachment to the land and unreasonably devoted to village solidarities. Instead they reveal remarkable flexibility and diversity, a readiness to adapt to changing incentives. As Vardi shows, they not only improved farming methods and raised yields during the eighteenth century, but also used land to finance investments in industry and to develop local business, far-flung commercial networks, and complex credit mechanisms. Vardi reveals how the peasants' responses to market opportunities depended largely on their status, with the very poor and the well-off staying out of the linen business, while a broad middle group leaped into the trade, setting in motion a gradual shift of wealth and power within the community. As this analysis makes clear, the importance of patrimony and tradition had much more to do with economic interests and common sense than with deep-seated cultural and emotional constraints. The eighteenth-century French countryside emerges as a region of capitalist experimentation, cut short by pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary crises. Meticulously documented, broadly interpretive, and beautifully written, this fascinating book will permanently alter conventional perceptions of peasant life and rural industry and, ultimately, the way ordinary people are seen in seemingly distant times and places.
Anglia
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Author: United States. PresidentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
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"Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.
Real Algebraic Geometry and Ordered Structures
Author: James J. MaddenPublisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 9780821855898
Category : Geometry, Algebraic
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Colorado Geographic Names
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Index to Names of Applicants in Connection with Published Complete Specifications
Author: Great Britain. Patent OfficePublisher:
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Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Circular of the Bureau of Standards
Author: United States. National Bureau of StandardsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Standardization
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Circular of the National Bureau of Standards
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Standardization
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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