The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830

by Jeff Horn

Book Overview

In The Path Not Taken, Jeff Horn argues that--contrary to standard, Anglocentric accounts--French industrialization was not a failed imitation of the laissez-faire British model but the product of a distinctive industrial policy that led, over the long term, to prosperity comparable to Britain's. Despite the upheavals of the Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, France developed and maintained its own industrial strengths. France was then...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026258283X
• ISBN13: 9780262582834
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 383 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher