Family business
Subtitle: litigation and the political economies of daily life in early modern France
By: Julie Hardwick.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford [UK]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780199558070
Subjects: Domestic relations courts -- France -- History; Family -- Economic aspects -- France -- History; Family-owned business enterprises -- France -- History
Description: In 17th-century France, families were essential in the shaping of capitalism and the process of state formation. Exploring civil lawsuits in French cities, 'Family Business' reveals the part that the management of everyday difficulties, in court and out, played in these wider phenomena.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Economies of marriage : managing marital status; title: Economies of justice : the possibilities of a people's court; title: Economies of family politics : litigation communities, subject, and state; title: Economies of markets : borrowing, customary practices, and emerging markets; title: Economies of violence : battery, neighbourhood values, and legal remedies.