Steven L. Kaplan

Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV (eBook, ePUB)

Second Edition

• Format: ePub

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 research in all the Parisian depots and more than fifty departmental archives and specialized and municipal libraries, 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. The study focuses on the radical legal changes "freeing" the grain trade in the 1760s, and the ensuing subsistence crisis that violently buffeted the realm and profoundly impacted French life. In the course of the analysis, Kaplan offers crucial insight into the liberal movement, the reform impulse within the government, the character of parliamentary politics, the operation of local administration, the collective attitudes and behaviour of consumers, the famine plot persuasion, the organization of the grain and flour trades, and the management of royal victualing enterprises.

Anthem Press is proud to reissue this path breaking work together with a significant new historiographic companion volume by the author, "The Stakes of Regulation: Perspectives on 'Bread, Politics and Political Economy' Forty Years Later."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783084791
• Artikelnr.: 44367381

Autorenporträt

Steven L. Kaplan is the Goldwin Smith Professor of European History, emeritus at Cornell University.

Inhaltsangabe

Volume One.- I. The Police of Provisioning.- II. The Regulations and the Regulators.- III. The Origins of Liberty.- IV. The Response to Liberalization: Theory and Practice.- V. Forcing Grain to be Free: The Government Holds the Line.- VI. The Reforms and the Grain Trade.- VII. Paris.- VIII. The Royal Trump.- Volume Two.- IX. The government, the parlements, and the battle Over liberty: I.- X. The government, the parlements, and the battle Over liberty: II.- XI. From Political Economy To Police: The Return to Apprehensive Paternalism.- XII. Policing the General Subsistence, 1771-1774.- XIII. The King's Grain and the Retreat from Liberalization.- Conclusion.

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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