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Record Nr.

UNINA9910433256303321

Autore

Kaplan Steven L.

Titolo

Bread, politics and political economy in the reign of Louis XV / / Steven L. Kaplan ; foreword by Sophus A. Reinert [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Anthem Press, 2015

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2015

ISBN

0-85728-579-3

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxiv, 771 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Anthem Other Canon Economics

Disciplina

330.994/034

Soggetti

Grain trade - France - History

France Politics and government 1715-1774

France Economic conditions 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Dec 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV; Contents  ; List of Illustrations; Foreword to the Second Edition by Sophus A. Reinert; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter I. The Police of Provisioning; Chapter II. The Regulations and the Regulators; Chapter III. The Origins of Liberty; Chapter IV. The Response to Liberalization: Theory and Practice; Chapter V. Forcing Grain to Be Free: The Government Holds the Line; Chapter VI. The Reforms and the Grain Trade; Chapter VII. Paris; Chapter VIII. The Royal Trump

Chapter IX. The Government, the Parlements, and the Battle over Liberty: IChapter X. The Government, the Parlements, and the Battle over Liberty: II; Chapter XI. From Political Economy to Police: The Return to Apprehensive Paternalism; Chapter XII. Policing the General Subsistence, 1771-1774; Chapter XIII. The King's Grain and the Retreat from Liberalization; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.     Anthem Press is proud to reissued this pathbreaking 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.'