Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV - Second Edition

Informationen zum Autor Steven L. Kaplan, Foreword by Sophus A. Reinert Klappentext 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 comprehensive archival, 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations; Foreword to the Second Edition; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The Police of Provisioning; 2. The Regulations and the Regulators; 3. The Origins of Liberty; 4. The Response to Liberalization: Theory and Practice; 5. Forcing Grain to be Free: The Government Holds the Line; 6. The Reforms and the Grain Trade; 7. Paris; 8. The Royal Trump; 9. The Government, the Parlements, and the Battle over Liberty: I; 10. The Government, the Parlements, and the Battle over Liberty: II; 11. From Political Economy to Police: The Return to Apprehensive Paternalism; 12. Policing the General Subsistence, 1771-1774; 13. The King's Grain and the Retreat from Liberalization; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Product details

• Authors: Steven L. Kaplan
• Assisted by: Reinert Sophus A. (Foreword)
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2015
• EAN: 9780857285102
• ISBN: 978-0-85728-510-2
• No. of pages: 816
• Series: Anthem Other Canon Economics; Anthem European Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Economic history, Political Economy