Provisioning Paris : : Merchants and Millers in the Grain and Flour Trade during the Eighteenth Century / / 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1984 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Illustrations and Tables
- 1. Provisioning Paris: Market Principle and Marketplace
- 2. Provisioning Paris: The Goods
- 3. Provisioning Paris: The Context
- 4. The Grain Merchants of the Ports of Paris
- 5. The Grain Merchants at the Paris Halle
- 6. The Mill and the Miller
- 7. The Miller and the Public
- 8. The Parisian Milling Network: Density and Productivity
- 9. Miller Family, Marriage, and Fortune
- 10. The Flour Trade
- 11. Economic Milling
- 12. The Bakers and the Grain and Flour Trade
- 13. The Brokers
- 14. The Police of the Paris Markets: Measurers and Porters
- 15. Conclusion
- Appendixes: Sources
- Bibliography
- Index