1st Edition

Gender, Space and Illicit Economies in Eighteenth-Century Europe Uncontrolled Crossings

By Anne Montenach Copyright 2024
310 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

310 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

310 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book seeks to contribute a multi-dimensional, multi-layered and gendered approach to the illicit economy in the historiography of early modern Europe.   Using original source material from several countries, this volume concentrates on a border and transnational area—approximately the Lyon-Geneva-Turin triangle—located at the heart of European trade. It focuses on three products—salt,... Read more

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

Biography

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.