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An Infinite History
The Story of a Family in France over Three CenturiesBy Emma RothschildNarrated by Eve Matheson
Length13h
About this audiobook
This audiobook narrated by Eve Matheson tells the story of social change in France through the experiences of a single extended family across five generations
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 through two documents: a power of attorney in connection with the property of her late husband, a carpenter on the island of Grenada, and a prenuptial contract for her daughter, signed by eighty-three people in Angoulême. Who was Marie Aymard? Who were all these people? And why were they together on a dark afternoon in December 1764? Beginning with these questions,
An Infinite History offers a panoramic look at an extended family over five generations. Through ninety-eight connected stories about inquisitive, sociable individuals, ending with Marie Aymard's great-great granddaughter in 1906, Emma Rothschild unfurls an innovative modern history of social and family networks, emigration, immobility, the French revolution, and the transformation of nineteenth-century economic life.
Rothschild spins a vast narrative resembling a period novel, one that looks at a large, obscure family, of whom almost no private letters survive, whose members traveled to Syria, Mexico, and Tahiti, and whose destinies were profoundly unequal, from a seamstress living in poverty in Paris to her third cousin, the Cardinal of Algiers. Rothschild not only draws on discoveries in local archives but also uses new technologies, including the visualization of social networks, large-scale searches, and groundbreaking methods of genealogical research.
An Infinite History demonstrates how the ordinary lives of one family over three centuries can constitute a remarkable record of deep social and economic changes.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Business and Economics
Length13 hrs
Narrated byEve Matheson
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJan 26, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Anno, Dedication, Introduction
9Chapter 6 - A Family in Changing Times
2Chapter 1 - The World of Marie Aymard
10Chapter 6 - Continued
3Chapter 2 - The Marriage Contract
11Chapter 7 - Modern Lives
4Chapter 3 - A Bird's-Eye View
12Chapter 8 - Histories of Economic Life
5Chapter 4 - The First Revolution
13Chapter 9 - Family Capital
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6Chapter 4 - Continued
14Chapter 10 - Charles Martial and Louise
7Chapter 5 - The French Revolution in Angouleme
15Chapter 10 - Continued
8Chapter 5 - Continued
16Chapter 11 - The End of the Story, Closing Anno
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