Privilege and Profit : a Business Family in Eighteenth-Century France /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bamford, P. W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Temas:
Babaud de La Chaussade, Pierre, > 1702-1792.
1700-1799
Iron industry and trade > France > History > 18th century.
Industrialists > France > Biography.
Industriels > France > Biographies.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Industrialists.
Iron industry and trade.
France.
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: State and Family
  • I.A Family in the Timber Business
  • CHAPTER 1. A Family of Entrepreneurs: Jacques Masson, the Babauds, Marie Boesnier, and Duportal of Saumur
  • CHAPTER 2. The Development of the Family Timber Business, 1728--1738
  • CHAPTER 3. Deaths and Survivors: Marie Boesnier, Pierre Babaud de la Chaussade, and the Ongoing Business
  • II. The New Family Business: Forged Anchors, Irons, and Steel
  • CHAPTER 4. The Formation of the Family Forges Royales
  • CHAPTER 5. Procurement and Production, Transport and Payments
  • CHAPTER 6. An Industrial-Seigneurial Labor Force
  • CHAPTER 7. Chaussade: Agrarian and Industrial Lord
  • III. Market Problems, Return to Timber, and Retirement
  • CHAPTER 8. Markets for Anchors, Irons, and Steel
  • CHAPTER 9. The Business in the Decade of the American War
  • CHAPTER 10. Chaussade in Retirement: Real Estate and Revolution
  • Epilogue: Comparisons and Reflections
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Sources
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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