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Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV

Volume One

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  • © 1976

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  1. Steven L. Kaplan
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXX
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  2. Volume One

    1. The Police of Provisioning

      • Steven L. Kaplan
      Pages 1-51

    2. The Regulations and the Regulators

      • Steven L. Kaplan
      Pages 52-96

    3. The Origins of Liberty

      • Steven L. Kaplan
      Pages 97-163

    4. The Response to Liberalization: Theory and Practice

      • Steven L. Kaplan
      Pages 164-214

    5. Forcing Grain to be Free: The Government Holds the Line

      • Steven L. Kaplan
      Pages 215-251

    6. The Reforms and the Grain Trade

      • Steven L. Kaplan
      Pages 252-299

    7. Paris

      • Steven L. Kaplan
      Pages 300-343

    8. The Royal Trump

      • Steven L. Kaplan
      Pages 344-407

  3. Volume Two

    1. The Government, the Parlements, and the Battle over Liberty: I

      • Steven L. Kaplan
      Pages 408-450

    2. The Government, the Parlements, and the Battle Over Liberty: II

      • Steven L. Kaplan
      Pages 451-490

    3. From Political Economy to Police: The Return to Apprehensive Paternalism

      • Steven L. Kaplan
      Pages 491-554

    4. Policing the General Subsistence, 1771–1774

      • Steven L. Kaplan
      Pages 555-613

    5. The King’s Grain and the Retreat from Liberalization

      • Steven L. Kaplan
      Pages 614-676

    6. Conclusion

      • Steven L. Kaplan
      Pages 677-702

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 703-797
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About this book

I Modern times has invented its own brand of Apocalypse. Famine is no longer one of the familiar outriders. The problems of material life, and their political and psychological implications, have changed drastically in the course of the past two hundred years. Perhaps nothing has more profoundly affected our institutions and our attitudes than the creation of a technology of abundance. - Even the old tropes have given way: neither dollars nor calories can measure the distance which separates gagne-pain from gagne-hi/leek. 1 Yet the concerns of this book seem much less remote today than they did when it was conceived in the late sixties. In the past few years we have begun to worry, with a sort of expiatory zeal, about the state· of our environment, the size of our population, the political economy and the morality of the allocation of goods and jobs, and the future of our resources. While computer projections cast a malthusian pall over our world, we have had a bitter, first-hand tasteof shortages of all kinds. The sempiternal battle between producers and consumers rages with a new ferocity, as high prices provoke anger on the one side and celebration on the other. Even as famines continue to strike the third world in the thermidor of the green revolution, so we have discovered hunger in our own midst.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV

  • Book Subtitle: Volume One

  • Authors: Steven L. Kaplan

  • Series Title: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1404-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1976

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-1873-3Published: 30 September 1976

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-1406-9Published: 30 November 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-1404-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0066-6610

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0307

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXX, 797

  • Topics: History, general

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