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Global Trade, Smuggling, and the Making of Economic Liberalism: Asian Textiles in France 1680-1760
Felicia Gottmann
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Hardback. This charts the impact of global trade on early modern France focusing on Asian textiles. The ban in 1686 led to vast smuggling, illicit retail, and consumer revolts, but also to an effort by the French administration to acquire the technology for their production, and ultimately to the first victory of the liberal Enlightenment political economy. Series: Europe's Asian Centuries. Num Pages: 258 pages, 23. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1F; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBTB; KCLT; KNDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
Imported from India, China, the Levant, and Persia and appreciated for their diversity, designs, fast bright colours and fine weave, Asian textiles became so popular in France that in 1686 the state banned their import, consumption and imitation. A fateful decision. This book tells the story of smuggling on a vast scale, savvy retailers and rebellious consumers. It also reveals how reformers in the French administration itself sponsored a global effort to acquire the technological know-how necessary to produce such textiles and how the vitriolic debates surrounding the eventual abolition of the ban were one of the decisive moments in ... Read more
Imported from India, China, the Levant, and Persia and appreciated for their diversity, designs, fast bright colours and fine weave, Asian textiles became so popular in France that in 1686 the state banned their import, consumption and imitation. A fateful decision. This book tells the story of smuggling on a vast scale, savvy retailers and rebellious consumers. It also reveals how reformers in the French administration itself sponsored a global effort to acquire the technological know-how necessary to produce such textiles and how the vitriolic debates surrounding the eventual abolition of the ban were one of the decisive moments in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Europe's Asian Centuries
Condition
New
Number of Pages
266
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137444875
SKU
V9781137444875
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99-3
About Felicia Gottmann
Felicia Gottmann is Leverhulme ECR Fellow at the University of Dundee's Scottish Centre for Global History, UK. After receiving her D.Phil from Oxford University in 2010, she was a Research Fellow on the ERC-funded project 'Europe's Asian Centuries: Trading Eurasia 1600-1830' at the University of Warwick.
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