An Infinite History (eBook)

The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries

Emma Rothschild (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9780691208176 (ISBN)

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An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generationsMarie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angouleme in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened. Yet, in 1764, she made her fleeting mark on the historical record through two documents: a power of attorney in connection with the property of her late husband, a carpenter on the island of Grenada, and a prenuptial contract for her daughter, signed by eighty-three people in Angouleme. Who was Marie Aymard? Who were all these people? And why were they together on a dark afternoon in December 1764? Beginning with these questions, An Infinite History offers a panoramic look at an extended family over five generations. Through ninety-eight connected stories about inquisitive, sociable individuals, ending with Marie Aymard's great-great granddaughter in 1906, Emma Rothschild unfurls an innovative modern history of social and family networks, emigration, immobility, the French Revolution, and the transformation of nineteenth-century economic life.Rothschild spins a vast narrative resembling a period novel, one that looks at a large, obscure family, of whom almost no private letters survive, whose members traveled to Syria, Mexico, and Tahiti, and whose destinies were profoundly unequal, from a seamstress living in poverty in Paris to her third cousin, the cardinal of Algiers. Rothschild not only draws on discoveries in local archives but also uses new technologies, including the visualization of social networks, large-scale searches, and groundbreaking methods of genealogical research.An Infinite History demonstrates how the ordinary lives of one family over three centuries can constitute a remarkable record of deep social and economic changes.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.1.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 1 table
• Sprache: englisch
• Gewicht: 11567 g
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • Accounting • Africa • Algeria • algiers • almoner • Ancien Régime • Angouleme • archives • Artibonite (department) • Bankruptcy • Banque de France • Basilica • behalf • biens nationaux • birth certificate • Cap-Haïtien • Capitalism • Cardinal of Algiers • Charente • Charivari • Charles Lavigerie • Charles Martial Allemand Lavigerie • Charles X of France • Charlotte Ursule • Ci-devant • Claude Gueux • Cloth merchant • Committee of Public Safety • Commodity • Conscription • Constitutional bishop • Cordeliers • counter-revolutionary • Creditor • debt • Decree • dilapidation • Diocese • Dordogne • dowry • Economic History • Economic Life • economic revolution • economy • Emigration • Émile Zola • Employment • evocation • Expense • Extended family • Family history • Flight to Varennes • Franco-Prussian War • french nobility • Georges-Eugène Haussmann • Georges Lefebvre • Godparent • grandparent • Grenada • Guadeloupe • Haiti • head of household • Henri Murger • His Family • historical evidence • Historical research • Historiography • Horace Vernet • Household • illusions perdues • income • Intendant • Jacques Roux • Jacques Thinon • Jean-Baptiste • Jeanne Allemand Lavigerie • Jules Ferry • July Monarchy • L'Argent • La Rochelle • L'Assommoir • Laurence Sterne • lawyer • Le Figaro • Le Mans • Leonard Robin • Limoges • Literature • lodging • Louis Blanc • Louise-Francois Pinagot • Louis Felix • Louis Philippe I • Louis XVIII of France • Magdelaine Faure • Marc Bloch • Marie Aymard • Marie Madeleine Virol • Marriage settlement (England) • Marthe • Martinique • Melanie Gabriele Sophie • Meuse • Microhistory • Military Service • Missionary • Modernity • Monarchy • Monsieur • Municipal authority (Pennsylvania) • My Country • Nantes • Napoleon • Napoleonic period • newspaper • Nobility • North Africa • notary • novelist • Pamphlet • Paris Commune • parish register • parish registers • Pascal Chauvin • Paul Abadie • Paul Erdos • Pension • Pensioner • Philippe of Belgium • Place du Murier • Political History • political revolution • Pope Pius IX • power of attorney • Pretext • Prisoner of War • provincial France • public administration • Pyrenees • Refugee • residence • revolutions of 1848 • Rococo • Saint-Domingue • Sarthe • seminary • Shirt • shopkeeper • signatories • Slavery • Slavery in France • Slavery in the United States • Slave Ship • Social Networks • Society of Jesus • spouse • Taille • Tailor • Tax • Technology • the bishop of Nancy • the first French revolution • Their Lives • Tours • trans-Saharan slave trade • usury • warfare • watchmaker • White Fathers • WIG • Women in History • Writing • year • young widow
• ISBN-13: 9780691208176 / 9780691208176