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

Second Edition

By: Steven L. Kaplan

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

Second Edition

By: Steven L. Kaplan

A new edition of Kaplan’s landmark study on eighteenth-century French political economy, reissued with a new Foreword by Sophus A. Reinert. Based on research in all the Parisian depots and more than fifty departmental archives and specialized and municipal libraries, Kaplan’s classic work constitutes a major contribution to the study of the subsistence problem before the French Revolution and the political economy of deregulatory reform. Anthem Press is proud to reissue this path breaking work together with a significant new historiographic companion volume by the author, “The Stakes of Regulation: Perspectives on ‘Bread, Politics and Political Economy’ Forty Years Later.”

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1783084790

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Farewell, Revolution

Disputed Legacies : France, 1789/1989

By: Steven L. Kaplan

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Farewell, Revolution

Disputed Legacies : France, 1789/1989

By: Steven L. Kaplan

How the Revolution should be remembered has been the focus of debates concerned as much with France's future as with its past. Kaplan both reviews these debates and reconstructs - in sometimes hilarious detail - events leading up to the official commemoration. Bringing to bear the skills of the archival historian and the ethnographer, he masterfully explains how a particular political culture attempts to come to terms with its past.

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600

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Cornell University Press

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0801427185

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9780801427183

The Stakes of Regulation

By: Steven L. Kaplan

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The Stakes of Regulation

By: Steven L. Kaplan

Scholars have long regarded ‘Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV’ (1976) as marking an important moment in the study of the social, political and cultural history of eighteenth-century France. ‘The Stakes of Regulation’ is the companion volume to a new edition of this landmark study, revealing how Kaplan’s thinking has evolved in reaction both to the changing intellectual, epistemological, historiographical and socio-political environment, and to the significant scholarship that has been accomplished during the past forty years. Kaplan remains faithful to his original premise: that the subsistence question is at the core of eighteenth century history, and that the issues joined by the struggle over liberalization continue to shape our destiny today through the bristling tension between liberty and equality, and the debate over the necessity, legitimacy and character of regulation.

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Anthem Press

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1783084774

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9781783084777

The Famine Plot Persuasion in Eighteenth-century France

By: Steven L. Kaplan

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The Famine Plot Persuasion in Eighteenth-century France

By: Steven L. Kaplan

This is a print on demand publication. The French Revolution seethed with rumors of plots instigated by various groups from aristocrats to brigands. Many of the rumors had to do with the food supply, especially with grain, from which the vast majority of Frenchmen derived most of their nourishment. These were called "famine plots," by which was meant a secret machination to starve the people in order to achieve certain ends. Like many attitudes & practices associated with the Revolution, the famine plot persuasion was a way of making sense of the world that was deeply rooted in the collective consciousness & the material, moral & political environment of the old regime. When there was a serious & protracted disruption of the normal grain & bread supply, consumers found reasons to question the authenticity of the dearth. The conviction grew that the crisis had been contrived, that there was a criminal conspiracy afoot against the people, that popular suffering was needless, & that the plotters somehow had to be resisted. This study examines the dearths of 1725-1726, 1738-1741, 1747 & 1751-1752, & the crises of 1765-1770 & 1771-1775.

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American Philosophical Society

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0871697238

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9780871697233

Provisioning Paris

Merchants and Millers in the Grain and Flour Trade during the Eighteenth Century

By: Steven Laurence Kaplan

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Provisioning Paris

Merchants and Millers in the Grain and Flour Trade during the Eighteenth Century

By: Steven Laurence Kaplan

Dependence upon grain deeply marked every aspect of life in eighteenth-century France. Steven Kaplan focuses upon this dependence at the point where it placed the greatest strain on the state, the society, and the individual—on the daily supply of grain and flour that furnished the staff of life. He reconstructs the history of provisioning in pre-industrial Paris and provides a comprehensive view of a culture shaped by the subsistence imperative. Who were the agents of the provisioning trade? What were their commercial practices? What sorts of relations did they maintain with each other? How did the authorities regulate their business? To answer these questions, Professor Kaplan combed the archives and libraries of France. He maps out the elementary structures of the trade and shows how they were transformed as a result of cultural and political as well as commercial and technological changes. In rich ethnographic detail he evokes the dayto-day life of merchants, millers, bakers, brokers, and market officials. He shows how flour superseded grain and how the millers overtook the merchants in the provisioning process. He explores the tension between the suppliers' need for freedom and the consumers' need for security. Even as he weaves the intricate patterns of life inside and outside the marketplace he never loses sight of the immense interests at stake: the stability and legitimacy of the government, the durability of the social structure, and the survival of the people.

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Cornell University Press

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1501731424

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9781501731426

The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775

By: Steven L. Kaplan

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The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775

By: Steven L. Kaplan

Because the bakers and their bread were central to Parisian daily life, Kaplan's study is also a comprehensive meditation on an entire society, its government, and its capacity to endure.

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Duke University Press

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0822317060

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9780822317067

Good Bread Is Back

A Contemporary History of French Bread, the Way It Is Made, and the People Who Make It

By: Steven L. Kaplan

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Good Bread Is Back

A Contemporary History of French Bread, the Way It Is Made, and the People Who Make It

By: Steven L. Kaplan

In Good Bread Is Back, historian and leading French bread expert Steven Laurence Kaplan takes readers into aromatic Parisian bakeries as he explains how good bread began to reappear in France in the 1990s, following almost a century of decline in quality. Kaplan describes how, while bread comprised the bulk of the French diet during the eighteenth century, by the twentieth, per capita consumption had dropped off precipitously. This was largely due to social and economic modernization and the availability of a wider choice of foods. But part of the problem was that the bread did not taste good. In a culture in which bread is sacrosanct, bad bread was more than a gastronomical disappointment; it was a threat to France's sense of itself. By the mid-1990s bakers rallied, and bread officially designated as "bread of the French tradition" was in demand throughout Paris. Kaplan meticulously describes good bread's ideal crust and crumb (interior), mouth feel, aroma, and taste. He discusses the breadmaking process in extraordinary detail, from the ingredients to the kneading, shaping, and baking, and even the sound bread should make when it comes out of the oven. Kaplan does more than tell the story of the revival of good bread in France. He makes the reader see, smell, taste, feel, and even hear why it is so very wonderful that good bread is back.

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0822338335

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9780822338338

The Stakes of Regulation

By: Steven L. Kaplan

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

Second Edition

By: Steven L. Kaplan

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Second Edition

By: Steven L. Kaplan

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Book's by Steven L. Kaplan

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

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

Farewell, Revolution

Farewell, Revolution

The Stakes of Regulation

The Stakes of Regulation

The Famine Plot Persuasion in Eighteenth-century France

The Famine Plot Persuasion in Eighteenth-century France

Provisioning Paris

Provisioning Paris

The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775

The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775

Good Bread Is Back

Good Bread Is Back

The Stakes of Regulation

The Stakes of Regulation

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

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

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