Print, politics and trade in the French Atlantic : the Labottière family as eighteenth-century cultural brokers /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McLeod, Jane (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2024.
Series:	Knowledge and communication in the Enlightenment world.
Subjects:	Labottière family. Frères Labottière. Frères Labottière > Influence > History > 18th century. Printers > France > History > 18th century. Booksellers and bookselling > France > History > 18th century. Booksellers and bookselling > Influence > History > 18th century. France > Civilization > 18th century. Harbors > Economic aspects > France > History > 18th century. Enlightenment > France > History > 18th century. France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799. Imprimeurs > France > Histoire > 18e siècle. France > Civilisation > 18e siècle. Ports > Aspect économique > France > Histoire > 18e siècle. Siècle des Lumières > France > Histoire > 18e siècle. HISTORY / Europe / France. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. Building a printing and bookselling dynasty in an Atlantic port
2. Shipping books from Paris and abroad : the Labottière bookselling businesses
3. The Labottière printing house : an information hub
4. The Labottières as agents of the French state
5. From policemen to policed : the Labottières as victims of repression
6. Beyond books : textiles, sugar and the Martinique connection
7. Framing the French Revolution in Martinique and Saint-Domingue in the journal de Bordeaux, 1790-1793
8.Ppromoting the French Revolution in Bordeaux
9. Crisis and the collapse of the Labottière firm
Conclusion
Appendix : Labottière family tree
Bibliography
Index.