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Economic development in early modern France : the privilege of liberty, 1650-1820 /
Privilege has long been understood as the constitutional basis of Ancien Régime France, legalising the provision of a variety of rights, powers and exemptions to some, whilst denying them to others. In this fascinating new study however, Jeff Horn reveals that Bourbon officials utilized privilege a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in economic history
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1. Introduction: profits and economic development during the Old Régime
- 2. Privileged enclaves and the guilds: liberty and regulation
- 3. The privilege of liberty put to the test: industrial development in Normandy
- 4. Companies, colonies, and contraband: commercial privileges under the Old Régime
- 5. Privilege, liberty, and managing the market: trading with the Levant
- 6. Outside the body politic, essential to the body economic: the privileges of Jews, Protestants and foreign residents
- 7. Privilege, innovation, and the state: entrepreneurialism and the lessons of the Old Régime
- 8. The reign of liberty? Privilege after 1789
- Bibliography
- Index.