{"product_id":"print-politics-and-trade-in-jane-mcleod-9781837650866","title":"Print, Politics and Trade in the French Atlantic: The Labotti?re Family as Eighteenth-Century Cultural Brokers","description":"The epic histories of the French Revolution, Enlightenment, and colonialism in the West Indies, told through the history of one family. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Labotti?res were the largest printing and bookselling dynasty in eighteenth-century Bordeaux. From the 1680s to the sale of their business in 1794 three generations of this family acted as major cultural brokers in this booming Atlantic port, serving the rapidly expanding commercial and legal sectors with books, pamphlets, and newspapers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe lives and businesses of this family are heavily entwined with the histories of the Enlightenment, French colonialism in the West Indies, and the French Revolution. We find the final generation, welcoming the Revolution, printing a pro-revolutionary newspaper that framed the revolts in Haiti and Martinique in pro-revolutionary terms. They would come to establish their shop as a Jacobin centre and, along with their workers and journalists, navigated the forces of popular censorship and state control. However, despite these activities, the Labotti?re printing and bookselling enterprise would, eventually, be destroyed by the very Revolution it had supported. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough this lively microhistory of the Labotti?res, Jane McLeod presents the important role played by the flourishing Atlantic port economy in supporting the expansion of printing and bookselling. Furthermore, from McLeod's extensive archival research into over thirty members of the Labotti?re family, emerges a new understanding of the role played by printers and booksellers in the spreading of the ideas and concerns that underpinned some of the landmark social, cultural and political changes of the eighteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jane McLeod\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1837650861\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781837650866\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Boydell Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/09\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d","brand":"Jane McLeod","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46602824057087,"sku":"9781837650866","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d8c515f3-03fb-4842-ae7e-0683ef630cfb.jpg?v=1739695399","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/print-politics-and-trade-in-jane-mcleod-9781837650866","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}