TY - BOOK
T1 - Global Trade, Smuggling, and the Making of Economic Liberalism
T2 - Asian Textiles in France 1680-1760
AU - Gottmann, Felicia
PY - 2016/2/3
Y1 - 2016/2/3
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1057/9781137444882
DO - 10.1057/9781137444882
M3 - Book
SN - 9781349684717
SN - 9781137444875
T3 - Europe’s Asian Centuries
BT - Global Trade, Smuggling, and the Making of Economic Liberalism
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - London
ER -