| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 383 pages) : maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Transformations
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Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-371) and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments vii 1 Divergence, Convergence, and the French Path to Industrial Development after 1750 1 (16) 2 A Brave New World of Work: The Reform of the Corporations and the Lettres-Patentes of May 1779 17 (34) 3 Foreign Policy as Industrial Policy: The Anglo-French Commercial Treaty of 1786 51 (38) 4 The Other "Great Fear": Labor Relations, Industrialization, and Revolution 89 (38) 5 La patrie en danger. Industrial Policy in the Year II 127 (42) 6 From Allard to Chaptal: The Search for an Institutional Formula for French Industrialization, 1791-1804 169 (42) 7 Facing Up to English Industrial Dominance: Industrial Policy from the Empire to the July Revolution, 1805-1830 211 (38) 8 Coalitions and Competition: Entrepreneurs and Workers React to the New Industrial Environment 249 (40) 9 Chaptal's Legacy in a Niche Industry 289 (6) Notes 295 (52) Bibliography 347 (26) Maps 373 (6) Index 379. |
| Summary |
Arguing that - contrary to Anglocentric accounts - French industrialization was not a failed imitation of the laissez-faire British model, but the product of a distinctive industrial policy that over the long-term led to prosperity comparable to Britain's, this text offers a comparison between the two approaches. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Industrialization -- France -- History -- 18th century.
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Industrialization. |
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France. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Industrialization -- France -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Industrialization -- England -- History -- 18th century.
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England. |
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Industrialization -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Horn, Jeff, Ph. D. Path not taken. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006 0262083523 (DLC) 2006044260 (OCoLC)64625053 |
| ISBN |
9780262275705 (electronic book) |
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0262275708 (electronic book) |
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1282097830 |
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9781282097834 |
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0262083523 (alkaline paper) |
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9780262083522 |
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9780262582834 (paperback) |
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026258283X (paperback) |
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