Emma Rothschild

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An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries Emma Rothschild
An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations
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The Essential Hirschman Albert O. Hirschman
Some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers 
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The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History Emma Rothschild
The birth of the modern world as told through the remarkable story of one eighteenth-century family
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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 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