L. M. Cullen, Louis Cullen

The Brandy Trade Under the Ancien Regime

Regional Specialisation in the Charente

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Produktbeschreibung

An economic study of the brandy trade, its merchants, and its impact on the French economy under the ancien regime.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9780521890984
• ISBN-10: 0521890985
• Artikelnr.: 21572317

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Abbreviations
Glossary
1. The emergence of brandy spirits
2. Brandy and the French economy
3. Brandy: the distilling process, the product and the industry
4. Brandy production and internal trade in France
5. Competing markets: Parisian and foreign demand
6. The merchants of the brandy regions
7. The Cognac brandy trade: 1720s-60s
8. External challenge in the 1760s: vicissitudes of old and new houses 1762-78
9. Brandy business in Bordeaux and Cognac in the 1780s
Sources
Bibliography.