Mastering the Market: The State and the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700 1860

by Judith A. Miller

Book Overview

The grain trade, a crucial sector of the French economy, caused enormous concern throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Bread was the staple of French diets, so harvest shortfalls triggered unrest. The royal government had only the most scattershot and ineffective means to draw foodstuffs into restless cities. Successive regimes developed strategies to dominate the baking trades, influence prices along vital supply lines, and amass...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052162889X
• ISBN13: 9780521628891
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"