Republic of Skill

David Garrioch is Emeritus Professor of History at Monash University. He has worked on many aspects of urban social history in early modern Europe. His works include The Huguenots of Paris and the Coming of Religious Freedom (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and The Making of Revolutionary Paris (University of California Press, 2004; translated and published in French by La Decouverte, 2013).

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1 IntroductionArtisan Mobility and Innovation in Pre-industrial EuropeDavid Garrioch2 Shared Skills and Technologies of Community FormationArtisanal Epistemologies, Secrecy and Governmentality in Long-term ContextBert De Munck3 Artisan Mobility and the Circulation of Knowledge in the Glass Industry in Early Modern EuropeCorine Maitte4 Seducing EuropeSwiss Sugar-bakers on the MoveMargrit Schulte Beerbühl5 Circulation of Artisans and Techniques in Construction Sites in Early Modern EuropeNicoletta Rolla6 Foreign Furniture-makers and Innovation in Eighteenth-Century ParisDavid Garrioch7 Making and Marketing Porcelain in Eighteenth-century LondonMatthew Martin8 The Eckhardt FamilyInventors on the Move in the Dutch Republic and England, c.1760–1820Karel Davids9 A Difficult MatchingFemale Artisans, Technical Knowledge and Inventions in Early Modern Savoy-piedmontBeatrice Zucca Micheletto10 Made in France? British Women Workers in the Eighteenth-century Paris Fashion TradesSimon Macdonald11 Innovation, Mobility and Knowledge Transfer in Madrid, 1680–1820José Antolín Nieto Sánchez12 Painters on the Move in Seventeenth-century EuropeMaarten Prak and Sander KarstIndex