1st Edition

Routledge Revivals: Agriculture in France on the Eve of the Railway Age (1980)

By Hugh Clout Copyright 1980
252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1980, this compact and useful book uses the earliest volumes of government-published statistics, and with the aid of computer-generated cartography, transforms the numbers there reported into an arrondissement-by-arrondissement comparative picture of French agriculture in the mid-1830s. Clout reviews problems of rapid population growth, scarcely adequate domestic food supplies... Read more

List of Tables; List of Figures; Abbreviations; Preface; 1. Rural France – Terra Incognita? 2. Population Growth 3. Food Supply 4. Provincialism 5. The Look of the Land 6. Tradition and Innovation in the Arable Realm 7. Productivity, Production, and Prices in the Arable Realm 8. The Special Crops 9. The Woodland Realm 10. The Pastoral Realm 11. Feeding the people 12. A final View; Appendix: Documents and Data; Select Bibliography; Index

 

Biography

Hugh Clout