Transition to Capitalism in Modern France - Primitive Accumulation Markets From Old Regime to Post Wwii Era

This book challenges the foregoing consensus by showing that the French economy performed poorly relative to its rivals because of non-capitalist social relations. Specifically, peasants and artisans controlled the lands and workshops in autonomous communities and did not have to improve labor productivity to survive.

Table des matières

Introduction. 1. French Agriculture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Growth without Development 2. Industrialization from the Old Regime to the Post-Revolutionary Era 3. The First Transition to Capitalism from the 1850s to the 1920s 4. The Agricultural Revolution of the Fifth Republic after the end of the 1950s 5. Slow Growth, Relapse and Rapid Capitalist Industrialization from the Interwar Period to the 1970s 6. Conclusion

A propos de l'auteur

Xavier Lafrance, Professor of Political Science at UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal), is the author of The Making of Capitalism in France (2019) and coeditor, with Charles Post, of Case Studies in the Origins of Capitalism (2018).
Stephen Miller, Professor of History at UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham), is author of State and Society in Eighteenth Century France (Revised updated edition, 2023), Feudalism, Venality and Revolution (2020) and, co-authored with Christopher Isett, The Social History of Agriculture (2017).

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Xavier Lafrance, Xavier Miller Lafrance, Stephen Miller
• Edition: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9780367553043
• ISBN: 978-0-367-55304-3
• Pages: 230
• Thème: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of France
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Général, dictionnaires; European History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / France, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, macroeconomics, Colonialism & imperialism, Economic history, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General