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Book SynopsisArtisans travelled all over Europe in the pre-modern period, and they were responsible for many technical innovations and new consumer products. This volume moves away from the model of knowledge ‘transfer’ and, drawing on new understandings of artisan work, considers the links between artisan creativity and mobility. Through case studies of different industries, it emphasizes traditions of migration, the experience of moving, and the stimulus provided by new economic and work environments. For both male and female artisans, the weight of these factors varied from one trade to another, and from place to place.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Artisan Mobility and Innovation in Pre-industrial Europe David Garrioch 2 Shared Skills and Technologies of Community Formation Artisanal Epistemologies, Secrecy and Governmentality in Long-term Context Bert De Munck 3 Artisan Mobility and the Circulation of Knowledge in the Glass Industry in Early Modern Europe Corine Maitte 4 Seducing Europe Swiss Sugar-bakers on the Move Margrit Schulte Beerbühl 5 Circulation of Artisans and Techniques in Construction Sites in Early Modern Europe Nicoletta Rolla 6 Foreign Furniture-makers and Innovation in Eighteenth-Century Paris David Garrioch 7 Making and Marketing Porcelain in Eighteenth-century London Matthew Martin 8 The Eckhardt Family Inventors on the Move in the Dutch Republic and England, c.1760–1820 Karel Davids 9 A Difficult Matching Female Artisans, Technical Knowledge and Inventions in Early Modern Savoy-piedmont Beatrice Zucca Micheletto 10 Made in France? British Women Workers in the Eighteenth-century Paris Fashion Trades Simon Macdonald 11 Innovation, Mobility and Knowledge Transfer in Madrid, 1680–1820 José Antolín Nieto Sánchez 12 Painters on the Move in Seventeenth-century Europe Maarten Prak and Sander Karst Index
