Gender, Space and Illicit Economies in Eighteenth-Century Europe - Uncontrolled Crossings

This book seeks to contribute a multi-dimensional, multi-layered and gendered approach to the illicit economy in the historiography of early modern Europe.

List of contents

Part 1: Mountains and Smuggling
1. Salt and the Mountain Economy
2. In the Shadow of the State: A Border Economy
3. Gender, Household and Illicit Trade
Part 2: Fashion and Prohibition
4. Playing with Space: The Geography of Fraud and Control
5. Gender and Sociology of the 'Underworld'
6. Smuggling Inside the City
Part 3: Luxury and Clandestinity
7. Gender, Work and Fraud in a Luxury Industry
8. Waste or Theft
9. Fraud: Protagonists and Settings
10. Concluding remarks

About the author

Anne Montenach is Professor of early modern history at the University of Aix-Marseille (France), member of UMR 7303 TELEMMe (AMU-CNRS) and general editor, with Deborah Simonton, of The Cultural History of Work (2018). Her research focuses on women's roles in the early modern economy.

Product details

• Authors: Anne Montenach, Montenach Anne
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032706023
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3270602-3
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, HISTORY / Women, Economic history, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, History;Gender