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Mastering the Market: The State and the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700–1860
Miller, Judith A. (Emory University, Atlanta)
Mastering the Market: The State and the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700–1860
Miller, Judith A. (Emory University, Atlanta)
The grain trade, a crucial sector of the French economy, caused enormous concern throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Harvest shortfalls triggered unrest. Successive regimes developed effective strategies to influence and amass emergency stocks, thus controlling the market.
356 pages, 10 b/w illus. 6 tables
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | November 28, 1998 |
ISBN13 | 9780521621298 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 356 |
Dimensions | 160 × 235 × 29 mm · 724 g |
Language | English |