Emma Rothschild

Emma Rothschild

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    painting of ships in a harbor; bystanders on shore The hidden economic lives of women Women are everywhere in economic life, and nowhere very much in economic history. In Joseph Vernet’s great series of paintings of the 1750s and 1760s, the waterfronts of the ports of France are crowded with women pulling carts and selling fish, talki... Read More
    Emma Rothschild Emma Rothschild on An Infinite History Marie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angoulême in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened. Yet, in 1764, she made her fleeting mark on the historical record. Read More