Brandy Trade Under the Ancien Regime - Regional Specialisation in the Charente

Klappentext An economic study of the brandy trade! its merchants! and its impact on the French economy under the ancien regime. Zusammenfassung This sophisticated 1998 study describes the origins! production! and marketing of brandy from the Cognac region in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and discusses the role played by foreign houses such as Martell and Hennessy. While Professor Cullen focuses largely on the brandy trade! his findings contradict the view of a 'static' French economy in the eighteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Abbreviations; Glossary; 1. The emergence of brandy spirits; 2. Brandy and the French economy; 3. Brandy: the distilling process, the product and the industry; 4. Brandy production and internal trade in France; 5. Competing markets: Parisian and foreign demand; 6. The merchants of the brandy regions; 7. The Cognac brandy trade: 1720s-60s; 8. External challenge in the 1760s: vicissitudes of old and new houses 1762-78; 9. Brandy business in Bordeaux and Cognac in the 1780s; Sources; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: L. M. Cullen, L.M. Cullen, Louis Cullen, Louis M. Cullen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.06.2002
• EAN: 9780521890984
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89098-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Distribution, Economic history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, C 1700 To C 1800, Retail and wholesale industries, Distributive industries