Mastering the Market: The State and the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700-1860
- ISBN-10
- 0521621291
- ISBN-13
- 9780521621298
- Category
- History / Europe / France
- Pages
- 334
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Judith A. Miller
Description
Throughout the eighteenth and early nineteeenth centuries, French regimes developed strategies to control the crucial grain trade.
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