Judith A. Miller, Miller Judith a.

Mastering the Market

The State and the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700 1860

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Throughout the eighteenth and early nineteeenth centuries, French regimes developed strategies to control the crucial grain trade.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 729g
• ISBN-13: 9780521621298
• ISBN-10: 0521621291
• Artikelnr.: 21036073

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures and tables
Abbreviations
Old Regime weights and measures for wheat
Acknowledgements
Introduction - two crises: 1709 and 1853
Part I. The Market of the Enlightenment, 1720-1789: 1. The structure of mill and market
2. Simulated sales: shaping supply and demand in the Old Regime marketplace
3. Scripting 'free' trade
4. Narrowing the focus: bakers and bread, 1760-1789
Part II. Maximum: Feeding France in Revolution and War: 5. 1789: municipal revolutions and the origins of radicalism
6. Unity and interests
7. Recreating the market: Thermidor and the directory
Part III. The State Learns, 1800-1860: 8. The last maximum: 1812
9. The routines of the restoration
10. Relinquishing control: bakers and the end of the Paris reserve
11. The market mastered
Archival sources
Selected bibliography
Index.