Growth in a Traditional Society: The French Countryside, 1450-1815
(Part of the Princeton Economic History of the Western World Series and The Princeton Economic History of the Western World Series)
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Philip Hoffman shatters the widespread myth that traditional agricultural societies in early modern Europe were socially and economically stagnant and ultimately dependent on wide-scale political revolution for their growth. Through a richly detailed historical investigation of the peasant agriculture of ancien-r gime France, the author uncovers evidence that requires a new understanding of what constituted economic growth in such societies...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0691070083
ISBN13:9780691070087
Release Date:August 2000
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Length:362 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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