Provisioning Paris
Merchants and Millers in the Grain and Flour Trade during the Eighteenth Century
Dependence upon grain deeply marked every aspect of life in eighteenth-century France. Steven Kaplan focuses upon this dependence at the point where it placed the greatest strain on the state, the society, and the individual-on the daily supply of grain and flour that furnished the staff of life. He reconstructs the history of provisioning in pre-industrial Paris and provides a comprehensive view of a culture shaped by the subsistence imperative.Who were the agents of the provisioning trade? What were their commercial practices? What sorts of relations did they maintain with each other? How did the authorities regulate their business? To answ…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5017-3142-6
- EAN: 9781501731426
- Produktnummer: 31492288
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 592 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 108'253 KB
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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Steven Laurence Kaplan
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