Henry Heller

Labour, Science and Technology in France, 1500 1620

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For a generation, the history of the ancien régime has been written from the perspective of the Annales school, with its emphasis on the role of long-term economic and cultural factors in shaping the development of early modern France. In this detailed study, Henry Heller challenges such a paradigm and assembles a huge range of information about technical innovation and ideas of improvement in sixteenth-century France. Emphasising the role of state intervention in the economy, the development of science and technology, and recent research into early modern proto-industrialisation, Heller counters notions of a France mired in an archaic, determinist mentalité. Despite the tides of religious fanaticism and seigneurial reaction, the period of the religious wars saw a surprising degree of economic, technological and scientific innovation, making possible the consolidation of capitalism in French society during the reign of Henri IV.

Table of contents:
1. The expansion of Parisian merchant capital; 2. Labour in Paris in the sixteenth century; 3. Civil war and economic experiments; 4. Inventions and science in the reign of Charles IX; 5. Expropriation, technology and wage labour; 6. The Bourbon economic restoration; 7. Braudel, Le Roy Ladurie and the inertia of history.

In this detailed study, Henry Heller challenges prevailing approaches to the history of early modern France. He finds a surprising degree of economic, technological and scientific innovation, while contesting the view that the religious conflicts of the period can only be understood in strictly religious terms.

Detailed study of technological and scientific ideas and innovation in early modern France.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9780521550314
• ISBN-10: 0521550319
• Artikelnr.: 22091612

Autorenporträt

Henry Heller is a Professor of History at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is the author of The Capitalist University (Pluto, 2016), The Birth of Capitalism: A 21st Century Perspective (Pluto, 2011) The Cold War and the New Imperialism: A Global History, 1945-2005 (Monthly Review Press, 2006) and The Bourgeois Revolution in France (Berghahn, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The expansion of Parisian merchant capital
2. Labour in Paris in the sixteenth century
3. Civil war and economic experiments
4. Inventions and science in the reign of Charles IX
5. Expropriation, technology and wage labour
6. The Bourbon economic restoration
7. Braudel, Le Roy Ladurie and the inertia of history.