Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 729 g
The State and the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700 1860
Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 729 g
ISBN: 978-0-521-62129-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
The grain trade, a crucial sector of the French economy, caused enormous concern throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Bread was the staple of French diets, so harvest shortfalls triggered unrest. The royal government had only the most scattershot and ineffective means to draw foodstuffs into restless cities. Successive regimes developed strategies to dominate the baking trades, influence prices along vital supply lines, and amass emergency stocks of grain that could meet months-long demand. As free trade ideologies developed, French administrators at both the national and local levels sought to reconcile these ideologies with the perceived need to control the market. They created increasingly hidden, and effective, means to shape the grain trade. Thus, the French state played an instrumental role in establishing a viable form of free trade.
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- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
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.
