The Big Crazy by Julie Smith
In the eighteenth century, the Cul de Sac plain in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was a vast open-air workhouse of sugar plantations. This microhistory of one plantation owned by the Ferron de la Ferronnayses, a family of Breton nobles, draws on remarkable archival finds to show that despite the wealth such plantations produced, they operated in a context of social, political, and environmental fragility that left them weak and crisis prone. Focusing on correspondence between the Ferronnayses and their plantation managers, Cul de Sac proposes that the Caribbean plantation system, with its reliance on factory-like production processes and highly integrated markets, was a particularly modern expression of eighteenth-century capitalism. But it rested on a foundation of economic and political traditionalism that stymied growth and adaptation. The result was a system heading toward collapse as planters, facing a series of larger crises in the French empire, vainly attempted to rein in the inherent violence and instability of the slave society they had built. In recovering the lost world of the French Antillean plantation, Cul de Sac ultimately reveals how the capitalism of the plantation complex persisted not as a dynamic source of progress, but from the inertia of a degenerate system headed down an economic and ideological dead end.
Julie Smith is the creator of the popular, fast growing instagram blog, @ketomadesimple. She lives in Utah with her husband Cameron (@ketomadman) and their 4 insane children. She has a passion for helping people feel beautiful. Julie struggled with her weight for years and had no explanation of why. She was working out five days a week and eating super clean, only to find that she still continued to gain weight. After many doctor visits and tests, in early 2017, Julie was diagnosed with PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome), which is basically a hormonal disaster that affects millions of women. She was so happy to find a reason why - but was eager to find a solution. After doing extensive research on ways to combat this disorder, all things pointed to keto. She immediately jumped right in. Julie began living a ketogenic lifestyle in February 2017, and she's never looked back. She has lost over 60 pounds and has gained her life back in ways she never imagined. She continues to inspire others through her social media influence and believes that living a ketogenic lifestyle can be a way of healing yourself from the inside out.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780999813164 |
| ISBN 10 | 0999813161 |
| Title | The Big Crazy |
| Author | Julie Smith |
| Series | The Skip Langdon |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Booksbnimble |
| Year published | 2019-10-19 |
| Number of pages | 326 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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