Print, Politics and Trade in the French Atlantic

The epic histories of the French Revolution, Enlightenment, and colonialism in the West Indies, told through the history of one family. The Labottières were the largest printing and bookselling dynasty in eighteenth-century Bordeaux. From the 1680s to the sale of their business in 1794 three generations of this family acted as major cultural brokers in this booming Atlantic port, serving the rapidly expanding commercial and legal sectors with books, pamphlets, and newspapers. The lives and busin