James Livesey is professor of global history and dean of the School of Humanities at the University of Dundee in Scotland. He is the author of several books, including Making Democracy in the French Revolution and Civil Society and Empire.
“Provincializing Global History makes a strong case for reorienting
global historical methodologies towards the micro. . . . The book
develops a sophisticated argument about the emergence of provincial
knowledge cultures and Livesey manages to capture and articulate
that complexity in an impressively succinct way.”—Sarah
Easterby-Smith, Cultural and Social History
“Each chapter is, itself, a tour de force, and the book as a whole
is a major triumph. Livesey plumbs the depths of ordinary lives in
a rather nondescript province of Europe to build a convincing
argument about why and how world history took the trajectory it did
after 1800.”—Rafe Blaufarb, Florida State University
“Livesey blends cultural history, financial history, the history of
science and technology, and politics in a brilliant tableau of
innovation in the eighteenth century. He decisively shows that we
cannot understand the success of modernity without recognizing how
much innovation was local, driven by ordinary people challenging
the authority of tradition.”—Jack A. Goldstone, author of Why
Europe?
“Repertoires of knowledge star in this rich and imaginative
account. Through Livesey’s eyes—and incredible archival work—we
understand how they could connect 18th century provincial France to
a globalizing world.”—Christine Desan, Making Money: Coin,
Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism
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