A social history of the shareholding in the XVIIth and the XVIIIth centuries – ACTIMOD
Corporate finance through equities marks the modern period, affecting entire sectors of the economy. The first joint stock companies were inspired at the beginning of the seventeenth century in France models from England and the United Provinces. The ACTIMOD project is a social history project which, with a database of identified shareholders participating in the different companies, should allow to see the social and cultural characteristics of shareholding in France and its evolution, and to highlight a active investor group that weighs on the economic and political choices of the state and announces the influence groups of the contemporary era. They are one of the keys to understanding the economic changes that occur at the end of the modern period.
Project coordination
ERIC ROULET (UNITE DE RECHERCHE SUR L'HISTOIRE, LES LANGUES, LES LITTERATURES ET L'INTERCULTUREL)
The author of this summary is the project coordinator, who is responsible for the content of this summary. The ANR declines any responsibility as for its contents.
Partner
IDHES - Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l'Economie et de la Société
Forschungszentrum Gotha. Université d'Erfurt
CMMC CENTRE DE LA MEDITERRANEE MODERNE ET CONTEMPORAINE
CNE Centre Norbert Elias
HLLI UNITE DE RECHERCHE SUR L'HISTOIRE, LES LANGUES, LES LITTERATURES ET L'INTERCULTUREL
TransCrit TRANSFERTS CRITIQUES ANGLOPHONES
CRISSS Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire en sciences de la société
université de Montréal / département d'histoire
Institute for history. université de Leyde
Help of the ANR 239,498 euros
Beginning and duration of the scientific project:
February 2021
- 48 Months
