Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables and maps page
- Note on references
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: the outlines of a debate
- 2 The performance of the French economy
- 3 Natural resources and the labour supply
- 4 Capital and technical progress
- 5 An agricultural revolution?
- 6 ‘The call of the markets’: the pressure of demand in the French economy
- 7 Social and institutional influences on development
- 8 Conclusion
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
- New Studies in Economic and Social History
- Previously published as Studies in Economic History
- Economic History Society
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables and maps page
- Note on references
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: the outlines of a debate
- 2 The performance of the French economy
- 3 Natural resources and the labour supply
- 4 Capital and technical progress
- 5 An agricultural revolution?
- 6 ‘The call of the markets’: the pressure of demand in the French economy
- 7 Social and institutional influences on development
- 8 Conclusion
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
- New Studies in Economic and Social History
- Previously published as Studies in Economic History
- Economic History Society
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995