Gender, Space and Illicit Economic Practices in Eighteenth-Century Europe

ISBN-13: 9781032597690 / Twarda / 2024 / 336 str.

France) Mo Marseille Anne (University of Aix-Marseille III

Opis

This book seeks to contribute a multi-dimensional, multi-layered and gendered approach to the illicit economy in the historiography of early modern Europe.

Spis treści

Part 1: Mountains and Smuggling

1. Salt and the Mountain Economy

2. In the Shadow of the State: A Border Economy

3. Gender, Household and Illicit Trade

Part 2: Fashion and Prohibition

4. Playing with Space: The Geography of Fraud and Control

5. Gender and Sociology of the ‘Underworld’

6. Smuggling Inside the City

Part 3: Luxury and Clandestinity

7. Gender, Work and Fraud in a Luxury Industry

8. Waste or Theft

9. Fraud: Protagonists and Settings

10. Concluding remarks

O autorze

Anne Montenach is Professor of early modern history at the University of Aix-Marseille (France), member of UMR 7303 TELEMMe (AMU-CNRS) and general editor, with Deborah Simonton, of The Cultural History of Work (2018). Her research focuses on women’s roles in the early modern economy.