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Global trade, smuggling, and the making of economic liberalism [electronic resource] : Asian textiles in France 1680-1760 / Felicia Gottmann.

9781137444882 (electronic book)
1137444886 (electronic book)
9781137444875
1137444878

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

©2016

English

1 online resource : illustrations.

HD9862.5 .G67 2016eb

382/.456770095

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 the development of Enlightenment economic liberalism.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Europe's Asian centuries.

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