{"product_id":"bad-subjects-libertine-lives-in-the-french-atlantic-1619-1814-hardback-9781496207890","title":"Bad Subjects; Libertine Lives in the French Atlantic, 1619–1814 (Hardback) 9781496207890","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBad Subjects\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLibertine Lives in the French Atlantic, 1619–1814\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJennifer J. Davis (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496207890\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 July 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e370 pages, 4 photographs, 2 illustrations, 7 maps, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“A documented and strikingly original investigation of the shifting category of libertines which, far from being exclusively associated with nonstandard or abusive sexual practices, has for several centuries also been associated with the stigmatization of personal, individualist relationships to the law.”-Anne Verjus, director of research at \u0026amp;Eacute;cole Normale SupÉrieure de Lyon in France\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“A lively, ambitious, and provocative book. Bad Subjects raises a host of important questions through a wide geographic and long chronological exploration of libertinism as a plastic concept appropriated in many regions. In centering sexuality as a key subject for imperial politics writ large and small, Davis offers an innovative addition to our understanding of the first French empire.”-Julie Hardwick, author of \u003ci\u003eSex in an Old Regime City: Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660–1789\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn a lively account that spans continents, Jennifer J. Davis considers what it meant to be called a libertine in early modern France and its colonies. \u003ci\u003eLibertinage \u003c\/i\u003ewas a polysemous term in early modern Europe and the Atlantic World, generally translated as “debauchery” or “licentiousness” in English. Davis assesses the changing fortunes of the quasi-criminal category of libertinage in the French Atlantic, based on hundreds of cases drawn from the police and judicial archives of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France and its Atlantic colonies alongside the literature inspired by those proceedings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The libertine life was not merely a subject for fiction nor a topos against which to play out potential revolutions. It was a charge authorities imposed on a startlingly wide array of behaviors, including gambling, selling alcohol to Native Americans, and secret marriages. Once invoked by family and state authorities, the charge proved nearly impossible for the accused to contest, for a libertine need not have committed any crimes to be perceived as disregarding authority and thereby threatening families and social institutions. The research in \u003ci\u003eBad Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e provides a framework for analysis of libertinage as a set of anti-authoritarian practices and discourses that circulated among the peoples of France and the Atlantic World, ultimately providing a compelling blueprint for alternative social and economic order in the Revolutionary period.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: “Bad Subjects” in the French Atlantic World\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: “Among the Savages”: The Viau Affair, 1619-1626\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Locating the Libertines of New France, 1632-1765\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: A Colonial Liberty?: Sex and Race in the Louisiana Colony, 1698-1768\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Libertines and S*v*ges: Explaining France’s Defeat in the Seven Years’ War, 1754-1773\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: A ‘Race of Libertines’: Gender, Family and the Law in France, 1684-1789\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: Redeeming Libertines: The DÉsirade Experiment, 1762-1768\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: Racializing Libertines: Sex and the Law of Slavery in the French Antilles, 1763-1789\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: Aristocrats and Libertines: Disputing Liberties in the Age of Revolutions, 1784-1804\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The Law and the Libertine, 1814\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52744955953432,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/bad-subjects-libertine-lives-in-the-french-atlantic-1619-1814-hardback-9781496207890","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}