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Across the metropole, the colonies, and the wider eighteenth-century world, French children and youth participated in a diverse set of state-building initiatives, social reform programs, and imperial expansion efforts. Young Subjects explores the lives and experiences of these youth, revealing their role as active and vital agents in the shaping of early modern France.



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“Young Subjects details the daily lives of children with rare richness. This is a very impressive piece of scholarship that shows how indispensable the history of childhood is to understanding France, its empire, and the early modern state.” Bianca Premo, Florida International University and author of Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority, and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima

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      Publisher McGill-Queen's University Press
      Published 15 March 2021
      ISBN-13 9780228005650
      978-0228005650
      ISBN-10 0228005655
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      Age groups: children Political ideologies and movements

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Across the metropole, the colonies, and the wider eighteenth-century world, French children and youth participated in a diverse set of state-building initiatives, social reform programs, and imperial expansion efforts. Young Subjects explores the lives and experiences of these youth, revealing their role as active and vital agents in the shaping of early modern France.



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      “Young Subjects details the daily lives of children with rare richness. This is a very impressive piece of scholarship that shows how indispensable the history of childhood is to understanding France, its empire, and the early modern state.” Bianca Premo, Florida International University and author of Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority, and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima

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