Labour, Science and Technology in France, 1500-1620

Zusammenfassung In this detailed 1995 study! Henry Heller challenges prevailing approaches to the history of early modern France. He finds a surprising degree of economic! technological and scientific innovation! while contesting the view that the religious conflicts of the period can only be understood in strictly religious terms. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The expansion of Parisian merchant capital; 2. Labour in Paris in the sixteenth century; 3. Civil war and economic experiments; 4. Inventions and science in the reign of Charles IX; 5. Expropriation, technology and wage labour; 6. The Bourbon economic restoration; 7. Braudel, Le Roy Ladurie and the inertia of history.

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• Authors: Henry Heller, Henry (University of Manitoba Heller, Heller Henry
• Assisted by: John Elliott (Editor), Olwen Hufton (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.05.2002
• EAN: 9780521893800
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89380-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Mod; Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1700 To C 1800