The Modernization of Rural France: Communications Networks and Agricultural Market Structures in Nineteenth-Century France

ISBN-13: 9781138046207 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 502 str.

Roger Price

Opis

This book, first published in 1983, is a major contribution to our understanding of how and why French rural peasant society became modernised by radical changes in the communications system – in particular, the coming of the railways.

Spis treści

List of Figures;  List of Tables;  Acknowledgements;  Introduction;  Part One: Food Production and Supply Prior to Railway Construction;  1. Agricultural before the Railway  2. Pre-Rail Communication Networks  3. Agricultural Market Structures before the Coming of the Railway;  Part Two: Social Crisis;  4. Subsistence Crisis and Popular Misery  5. Subsistence Crises and Popular Protest  6. An End to Dearth;  Part Three: Transport Revolution and Agriculture;  7. The Transport Revolution: Railways, Roads, Waterways  8. Modernizing Market Structures  9. Agriculture in a Changing Market;  Conclusion;  Notes and References;  Bibliography;  Index

O autorze

Roger Price