Download or read book Economic Development in Early Modern France written by Jeff Horn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the institution of privilege and liberty shaped early modern economic development in France between 1650 and 1820.
Download or read book Economic Development in Early Modern France written by Jeff Horn and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Privilege has long been understood as the constitutional basis of Ancien Régime France, legalising the provision of a variety of rights, powers and exemptions to some, whilst denying them to others. In this fascinating new study however, Jeff Horn reveals that Bourbon officials utilized privilege as an instrument of economic development, freeing some sectors of the economy from pre-existing privileges and regulations, while protecting others. He explores both government policies and the innovations of entrepreneurs, workers, inventors and customers to uncover the lived experience of economic d.
Download or read book Economic Development in Early Modern France written by Jeff Horn (Historian) and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cities and Social Change in Early Modern France written by Philip Benedict and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major changes experienced by France's cities over the period from the end of the middle ages to the eve of the Revolution are explored by six French and North American historians.
Download or read book An Economic History of Modern France Routledge Revivals written by Francois Caron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1979, this richly documented study of French development from the early nineteenth century to the present day is of particular importance to students both of history and economics. Francis Caron moves as confidently through the fields of current economic policy and modern economics as he does through the traditional subject matter of French nineteenth-century economic history. His book incorporates the mass of research that has appeared in monograph and periodical form in recent years, making it accessible for the first time to the English-speaking reader.
Download or read book The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World written by S. Reinert and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays draws on fresh readings of classic texts as well as rigorous research in the archives of Europe's greatest imperial power. Its contributors paint a powerful picture of the nature and implementation of political economy in the long eighteenth century, from the East to the West Indies.
Download or read book Labour Science and Technology in France 1500 1620 written by Henry Heller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 1995 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.
Download or read book Early Modern Capitalism written by Maarten Prak and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes stock of recent research on economic growth, as well as the development of capital and labour markets, during the centuries that preceded the Industrial Revolution. The book underlines the diversity in the economic experiences of early modern Europeans and suggests how this variety might be the foundation of a new conception of economic and social change.
Download or read book The Development of the French Economy 1750 1914 written by Colin Heywood and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the way economic historians have approached two sets of problems. Should the French economy in 18th and 19th centuries be considered "retarded," or an early European development success, and, should economic performance be explained by material conditions, or in social terms.
Download or read book The Early Modern Atlantic Economy written by John J. McCusker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text
Download or read book Markets and Growth in Early Modern Europe written by Victoria N Bateman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study to analyze a wide spread of price data to determine whether market development led to economic growth in the early modern period.
Download or read book The International Economy and Monetary Movements in France 1493 1725 written by Frank C. Spooner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume makes available the first English version of L' conomie mondiale et les frappes mon taires en France, 1493-1680, Frank C. Spooner's original and distinguished contribution to economic and monetary history. Generously illustrated with maps and graphs, and abridged by the author, this study introduces the English-reading audience to the methodological approaches of the modern school of French economic history. In this edition, Spooner covers an additional forty-five years not included in his original work: the period 1680-1725 which marks the prelude to the great monetary reform and consolidation of France in 1726. In addition to bringing the reader up to date on his continuing research, he presents a number of important conclusions concerning this economic era. Drawing from his vast insight into French monetary history and his thorough technical knowledge of French coinage and minds of the period, the author maps the historical and spatial perspectives of the two and a half centuries when France experienced successive periods of inflation as bullion, copper, and credit emerged into the forefront of economic affairs. To illustrate the way in which the sequence of these periods affected the structure of the French economy, he discusses how the relative supply and demand of the metals used in varying degrees as a medium of exchange increased the demand for the metal and influenced the credit system. Credit thus made a special contribution in coordinating and adjusting the various inconsistencies in the production and circulation of the different metals. Throughout his study, Spooner attributes an important role to money as a significant factor in economic change and development in early modern Europe and focuses on the relationship between the supply of money and the level and pattern of economic activity.
Download or read book The Economic Development of France written by J. H. Clapham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Economic Development of France: And Germany 1815-1914 For some years now I have lectured at Cambridge over the ground covered by this book. In 1907 I published, in Vol. x of the Cambridge Modern History, a chapter part of which corresponds - in matter and I daresay sometimes in words - with the earlier chapters which follow. I was urged by friends to put all my material into book form, for the use of the growing body of those at Cambridge and elsewhere who now study European economic history and are handicapped by the lack of books in English, and of comprehensive books in any language. I have written with an eye to them; but I hope what I have written may interest others. At first I planned a history of West European economic development in the nineteenth century; but I abandoned this notion, after discussion, for fear that such a book would be either outrageously long or overcrowded with dry and unexplained detail. Even as it is, in this attempt to put French and German economic history into a West European framework, the references to several topics will, I am sure, seem deficient in analytical explanation to many readers. Footnotes have been reduced to a minimum; so some account of the sources on which I have drawn most may be given here. For the earlier period there is a bibliography to my chapter in the Modern History. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Economic Development of France and Germany 1815 1914 written by Sir John Harold Clapham and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Classes Estates and Order in Early Modern Brittany written by James B. Collins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classes and their interests are analyzed first, in an examination of the Breton economy, and then the social system and the political superstructure that preserved it. Finally, Professor Collins addresses the question of order itself. How did the elites preserve order? What order did they wish to preserve? His analysis suggests that early modern France was a much more unstable, mobile society than previously thought; that absolutism existed more in theory than in practice; and that local elites and the Crown compromised in mutually beneficial ways to maintain their combined control over society. They imposed a new order, one neither feudal nor absolutist, on a society reexamining the meaning of basic structures such as the relationship of the family and the individual, the role of women in society, and property.
Download or read book Silver Trade and War written by Stanley J. Stein and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2000-04-21 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silver, Trade, and War is about men and markets, national rivalries, diplomacy and conflict, and the advancement or stagnation of states. Chosen by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The 250 years covered by Silver, Trade, and War marked the era of commercial capitalism, that bridge between late medieval and modern times. Spain, peripheral to western Europe in 1500, produced American treasure in silver, which Spanish convoys bore from Portobelo and Veracruz on the Carribbean coast across the Atlantic to Spain in exchange for European goods shipped from Sevilla (later, Cadiz). Spanish colonialism, the authors suggest, was the cutting edge of the early global economy. America's silver permitted Spain to graft early capitalistic elements onto its late medieval structures, reinforcing its patrimonialism and dynasticism. However, the authors argue, silver gave Spain an illusion of wealth, security, and hegemony, while its system of "managed" transatlantic trade failed to monitor silver flows that were beyond the control of government officials. While Spain's intervention buttressed Hapsburg efforts at hegemony in Europe, it induced the formation of protonationalist state formations, notably in England and France. The treaty of Utrecht (1714) emphasized the lag between developing England and France, and stagnating Spain, and the persistence of Spain's late medieval structures. These were basic elements of what the authors term Spain's Hapsburg "legacy." Over the first half of the eighteenth century, Spain under the Bourbons tried to contain expansionist France and England in the Caribbean and to formulate and implement policies competitors seemed to apply successfully to their overseas possessions, namely, a colonial compact. Spain's policy planners (proyectistas) scanned abroad for models of modernization adaptable to Spain and its American colonies without risking institutional change. The second part of the book, "Toward a Spanish-Bourbon Paradigm," analyzes the projectors' works and their minimal impact in the context of the changing Atlantic scene until 1759. By then, despite its efforts, Spain could no longer compete successfully with England and France in the international economy. Throughout the book a colonial rather than metropolitan prism informs the authors' interpretation of the major themes examined.
Download or read book The Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis 1600 1750 written by Jan de Vries and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1976-10-29 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the economic civilisation of Europe in the last epoch before the Industrial Revolution.
