{"product_id":"young-subjects","title":"Young Subjects","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcross the metropole, the colonies, and the wider eighteenth-century world, French children and youth participated in a diverse set of state-building initiatives, social reform programs, and imperial expansion efforts. \u003ci\u003eYoung Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e explores the lives and experiences of these youth, revealing their role as active and vital agents in the shaping of early modern France.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough a set of regional case studies, Julia Gossard demonstrates how thousands of children and youth were engaged in the service of the state. In Lyon, charity schools cultivated children as agents of moral and social reform who carried their lessons home to their families. In Paris, orphaned and imprisoned youth trained in skilled trades or prepared for military service, while others were sent to the French colonies in North America as \u003ci\u003efilles du roi\u003c\/i\u003e and sturdy labourers. Young people from merchant families were recruited to serve as cultural brokers and translators on behalf of French commerical interests in the Ottoman Empire and Siam. In each case, Gossard considers how these youth played, negotiated, and sometimes resisted their roles, and what expressions of individual identity and agency were available to subjects under the legal control of others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs sources of labour, future taxpayers, colonial subjects, cultural mediators, and potential criminals, children and youth were objects of intense interest for civic authorities. \u003ci\u003eYoung Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e refocuses our attention on these often overlooked historical subjects who helped to build France.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McGill-Queen's University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54220737773912,"sku":"9780228005650","price":84.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780228005650.jpg?v=1771996541","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/young-subjects","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}