Labour, Science and Technology in France, 1500–1620

ISBN-13: 9780521550314 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 272 str.

Canada) Henry Heller (University of Manitoba

Opis

In this detailed study, Henry Heller challenges the dominant approach to the history of early modern France, that of the Annales school, with its emphasis on long-term economic and cultural forces. He reexamines the history of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in France, and finds a surprising degree of economic, technological and scientific innovation. At the same time, he contests the view that the religious conflicts of the period ought only to be understood in strictly religious terms.

Recenzje

"...one learns much from this important, interesting, and engaging book..." Cynthia M. Truant, Labor History

Spis treści

1. The expansion of Parisian merchant capital; 2. Labour in Paris in the sixteenth century; 3. Civil war and economic experiments; 4. Inventions and science in the reign of Charles IX; 5. Expropriation, technology and wage labour; 6. The Bourbon economic restoration; 7. Braudel, Le Roy Ladurie and the inertia of history.