{"product_id":"mastering-the-market-the-state-and-the-grain-trade-in-northern-france-1700-1860-paperback-9780521628891","title":"Mastering the Market; The State and the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700–1860 (Paperback) 9780521628891","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMastering the Market\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe State and the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700–1860\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThroughout the eighteenth and early nineteeenth centuries, French regimes developed strategies to control the crucial grain trade.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJudith A. Miller (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521628891, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 18 October 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e356 pages, 10 b\/w illus.  6 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.1 x 2 cm, 0.534 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Although much has been written about the grain trade and the French government's gyrating policies for regulating it, the topic remains a crucial one for the proper understanding of the rise of a market economy and the fall of the old regime. Professor Judith Miller has written a book the clarity and breadth of which bring important new insights to the issues, and which should refresh the debates surrounding them...a lucid and well-written book.\"   Journal of Economics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe grain trade, a crucial sector of the French economy, caused enormous concern throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Bread was the staple of French diets, so harvest shortfalls triggered unrest. The royal government had only the most scattershot and ineffective means to draw foodstuffs into restless cities. Successive regimes developed strategies to dominate the baking trades, influence prices along vital supply lines, and amass emergency stocks of grain that could meet months-long demand. As free trade ideologies developed, French administrators at both the national and local levels sought to reconcile these ideologies with the perceived need to control the market. They created increasingly hidden, and effective, means to shape the grain trade. Thus, the French state played an instrumental role in establishing a viable form of free trade.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of figures and tables\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Old Regime weights and measures for wheat\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction - two crises: 1709 and 1853\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Market of the Enlightenment, 1720–1789: 1. The structure of mill and market\u003cbr\u003e 2. Simulated sales: shaping supply and demand in the Old Regime marketplace\u003cbr\u003e 3. Scripting 'free' trade\u003cbr\u003e 4. Narrowing the focus: bakers and bread, 1760–1789\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Maximum: Feeding France in Revolution and War: 5. 1789: municipal revolutions and the origins of radicalism\u003cbr\u003e 6. Unity and interests\u003cbr\u003e 7. Recreating the market: Thermidor and the directory\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The State Learns, 1800–1860: 8. The last maximum: 1812\u003cbr\u003e 9. The routines of the restoration\u003cbr\u003e 10. Relinquishing control: bakers and the end of the Paris reserve\u003cbr\u003e 11. The market mastered\u003cbr\u003e Archival sources\u003cbr\u003e Selected bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Modern%20history%20to%2020th%20century:%20c%201700%20to%20c%201900%20%5BHBLL%5D%22\"\u003eHBLL\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46129302536472,"sku":"9780521628891","price":35.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521628891i.jpg?v=1691666589","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/mastering-the-market-the-state-and-the-grain-trade-in-northern-france-1700-1860-paperback-9780521628891","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}