Steven L. Kaplan

Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV

Second Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A new edition of Kaplan's landmark study on eighteenth-century French political economy, reissued with a new Foreword by Sophus A. Reinert. Based on comprehensive archival, Kaplan's classic work constitutes a major contribution to the study of the subsistence problem before the French Revolution and the political economy of deregulatory reform.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 816
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 47mm
• Gewicht: 1300g
• ISBN-13: 9781785275425
• ISBN-10: 1785275429
• Artikelnr.: 59873361

Autorenporträt

Steven L. Kaplan, Foreword by Sophus A. Reinert

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Foreword to the Second Edition
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Police of Provisioning
2. The Regulations and the Regulators
3. The Origins of Liberty
4. The Response to Liberalization: Theory and Practice
5. Forcing Grain to be Free: The Government Holds the Line
6. The Reforms and the Grain Trade
7. Paris
8. The Royal Trump
9. The Government, the Parlements, and the Battle over Liberty: I
10. The Government, the Parlements, and the Battle over Liberty: II
11. From Political Economy to Police: The Return to Apprehensive Paternalism
12. Policing the General Subsistence, 1771-1774
13. The King's Grain and the Retreat from Liberalization
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index