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

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

By Roger Price Copyright 1983
506 Pages
by Routledge

506 Pages
by Routledge

506 Pages
by Routledge
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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. The author argues that complex changes in the transport systems, and their effects on agricultural market structures, finally brought traditional French rural... Read more

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

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Roger Price

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