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The Nimes Hosiery Guild and the Statutes Controversy of 1706-1712

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8940693
AutoresDavid K Smith (0000-0001-6508-6368, autor de correspondencia)
Año1999
Volumen22
Número4
Páginas493-493
Fecha de publicación1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFrench Historical Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/286757
OpenAlexW2014802880
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas16

Between 1706 and 1712, Nimes’ hosiers fought a series of political battles in municipal, regional (the Parlement of Toulouse), and Parisian (the Council of Commerce) fora over the establishment of guild statutes for the hosiery industry. Contr oversy over the statutes grew out of both religious rivalries and diverse economic interests within the industry and within Nimes. As the hosiers pursued the affair from familiar local judicial venues into the new administrative one in the Council o f Commerce, they learned and used a series of political skills necessary to operate within a standardized administrative setting. The example of the Nimes hosiers suggests that historians need a more inclusive notion of politicization that accounts not only for politicization through print culture or through fora distinct from the state but also for the politicization that occurred among a sociologically broad section of the populace in their interactions with the state

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