Provisioning Paris Merchants and Millers in the Grain and Flour Trade during the Eighteenth Century /

Dependence upon grain deeply marked every aspect of life in eighteenth-century France. Steven Kaplan focuses upon this dependence at the point where it placed the greatest strain on the state, the society, and the individual-on the daily supply of grain and flour that furnished the staff of life. He...

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Author / Creator: Kaplan, Steven L.
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التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني الكتروني
اللغة:English
Imprint: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1984. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE,
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جدول المحتويات:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Illustrations and Tables
  • 1. Provisioning Paris: Market Principle and Marketplace
  • 2. Provisioning Paris: The Goods
  • 3. Provisioning Paris: The Context
  • 4. The Grain Merchants of the Ports of Paris
  • 5. The Grain Merchants at the Paris Halle
  • 6. The Mill and the Miller
  • 7. The Miller and the Public
  • 8. The Parisian Milling Network: Density and Productivity
  • 9. Miller Family, Marriage, and Fortune
  • 10. The Flour Trade
  • 11. Economic Milling
  • 12. The Bakers and the Grain and Flour Trade
  • 13. The Brokers
  • 14. The Police of the Paris Markets: Measurers and Porters
  • 15. Conclusion
  • Appendixes: Sources
  • Bibliography
  • Index / Quinn, Mary Ann