Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements Note on Geographical Names, Measurement Units, And Currency UnitsIntroduction1. Origins Of A Migration Network2. The Coffee Boom And The Jealousy Of Trade3. House-Based Societies And Emigration4. War And Property Rights5. Nation, Citizenship And Atlantic Migrations6. Conclusion Bibliography Index

Promotional Information

This exemplary book's emphasis on kinship structures and their corresponding economic strategies sheds a light on the logic of immigration and return that is often absent in recent work on families of the Atlantic world. Force's intellectual subtlety and breadth, combined with the depth of archival work he has done, is impressive. -- Paul Cheney, University of Chicago, author of Revolutionary Commerce: Globalization and the French Monarchy A fascinating story of the pursuit of wealth in chaotic circumstances. -- Leslie P. Choquette, Assumption College, author of Frenchmen into Peasants: Modernity and Tradition in the Peopling of French Canada

About the Author

Pierre Force is a professor of French and history at Columbia University. He is the author of Self-Interest before Adam Smith: A Genealogy of Economic Science.

Reviews

Wealth and Disaster offers a rich and nuanced account of how fortunes were won and lost in the colonial Atlantic basin. Its account of intersecting logics of family, nationality, race, and class illustrate both the possibility and importance of greater conversations between economic sociology and economic history.
—James Braun, University of Toronto, H-Net Reviews