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Book SynopsisAn exciting and accessible history, Wealth and Disaster offers riveting insight into the matrimonial strategies and inheritance customs of French rural society and the resulting choices to emigrate or to stay.
Trade ReviewWealth and Disaster offers a rich and nuanced account of how fortunes were won and lost in the colonial Atlantic basin. Its account of intersecting logics of family, nationality, race, and class illustrate both the possibility and importance of greater conversations between economic sociology and economic history.
—James Braun, University of Toronto,
H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Note on Geographical Names, Measurement Units, And Currency UnitsIntroduction1. Origins Of A Migration Network2. The Coffee Boom And The Jealousy Of Trade3. House-Based Societies And Emigration4. War And Property Rights5. Nation, Citizenship And Atlantic Migrations6. Conclusion Bibliography Index
