The Modernization of Rural France: Communications Networks and Agricultural Market Structures in Nineteenth-Century France

by Roger Price

Book Overview

This book, first published in 1983, is a major contribution to our understanding of how and why French rural peasant society became modernised by radical changes in the communications system - in particular, the coming of the railways. The author argues that complex changes in the transport systems, and their effects on agricultural market structures, finally brought traditional French rural civilisation to an end. With the extension of commercialisation,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138046205
• ISBN13: 9781138046207
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 502 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"