The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775

by Steven Laurence Kaplan

In preindustrial Europe, dependence on grain shaped every phase of life from economic development to spiritual expression, and the problem of subsistence dominated the everyday order of things in a merciless and unremitting way. Steven Laurence Kaplan's The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775 focuses on the production and distribution of France's most important commodity in the sprawling urban center of eighteenth-century Paris where...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822317060
• ISBN13: 9780822317067
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 784 Pages
• Weight: 2.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"