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Revolutionary Commerce: Globalization and the French Monarchy (review)

Revolutionary Commerce: Globalization and the French Monarchy (review) Book Reviews slave-owning curiosities, the sorts of un-British folk for whom the liberties of the subject did not strictly apply. Ironically, many in Britain could see a distinct and different America where colonists could not. These insights are not all that new, as the title of the 1980 volume of essays edited by J. G. A. Pocock, Three British Revolutions: 1641, 1688, 1776, attests. Nonspecialists will absolutely enjoy this book. Specialists will enjoy finding great stories to add to lectures whose overall thrust they will not have to change, which leads me to a final observation, and one absolutely not the fault of Julie Flavell. In a far better world than the one we live in, this well-written and enjoyable book would never have been published using the always diminishing resources of even major university presses. Instead, an entirely reputable trade press would have provided it to a global citizenry of readers. But hardly any amateurs read books anymore and commercial presses never publish serious works of history such as this one. The top university presses, to survive, desperately seek to fill an abandoned commercial niche that probably no longer exists as they fearfully rush away from risky, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of World History University of Hawai'I Press

Revolutionary Commerce: Globalization and the French Monarchy (review)

Journal of World History , Volume 23 (1) – Jun 15, 2012

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Abstract

Book Reviews slave-owning curiosities, the sorts of un-British folk for whom the liberties of the subject did not strictly apply. Ironically, many in Britain could see a distinct and different America where colonists could not. These insights are not all that new, as the title of the 1980 volume of essays edited by J. G. A. Pocock, Three British Revolutions: 1641, 1688, 1776, attests. Nonspecialists will absolutely enjoy this book. Specialists will enjoy finding great stories to add to lectures whose overall thrust they will not have to change, which leads me to a final observation, and one absolutely not the fault of Julie Flavell. In a far better world than the one we live in, this well-written and enjoyable book would never have been published using the always diminishing resources of even major university presses. Instead, an entirely reputable trade press would have provided it to a global citizenry of readers. But hardly any amateurs read books anymore and commercial presses never publish serious works of history such as this one. The top university presses, to survive, desperately seek to fill an abandoned commercial niche that probably no longer exists as they fearfully rush away from risky,

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Journal of World HistoryUniversity of Hawai'I Press

Published: Jun 15, 2012

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