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They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones--four sisters and seven brothers who lived in Scotland and around the globe in the fast-changing eighteenth century. Piecing together their voyages, marriages, debts, and lawsuits, and examining their ideas, sentiments, and values, renowned historian Emma Rothschild illuminates a tumultuous period that created the modern...

In a brilliant recreation of the epoch between the 1770s and the 1820s, Emma Rothschild reinterprets the ideas of the great revolutionary political economists to show us the true landscape of economic and political thought in their day, with important consequences for our own. Her work alters the readings of Adam Smith and Condorcet--and of ideas of Enlightenment--that underlie much contemporary political thought.

Economic Sentiments takes up late-eighteenth-century disputes over the political economy of an enlightened, commercial society to show us how the "political" and the...

Die Geschichte Frankreichs als Familiengeschichte

Was können wir heute über das Leben ganz normaler Menschen aus vergangenen Zeiten erfahren? Marie Aymard lebt als Witwe im 18. Jahrhundert in Angoulême im Südwesten Frankreichs. Sie ist eine einfache Frau, die nie Lesen und Schreiben gelernt hat - und doch hinterlässt sie Spuren in der Geschichte. Der Ehevertrag, den sie für ihre Tochter aufsetzen ließ, trug 83 Unterschriften. Dieses außergewöhnliche Dokument nimmt Emma Rothschild als Ausgangspunkt ihrer historischen Recherche. Sie verfolgt die Lebenswege...