Privilege and Profit : : A Business Family in Eighteenth-Century France / / P. W. Bamford.
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Ann...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1989 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Anniversary Collection
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (448 p.) :; 6 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: State and Family
- I. A Family in the Timber Business
- CHAPTER 1. A Family of Entrepreneurs: Jacques Masson, the Babauds, Marie Boesnier, and Duportal of Saumur
- CHAPTER 2. The Development of the Family Timber Business, 1728-1738
- CHAPTER 3. Deaths and Survivors: Marie Boesnier, Pierre Babaud de la Chaussade, and the Ongoing Business
- II. The New Family Business: Forged Anchors, Irons, and Steel
- CHAPTER 4. The Formation of the Family Forges Royales
- CHAPTER 5. Procurement and Production, Transport and Payments
- CHAPTER 6. An Industrial-Seigneurial Labor Force
- CHAPTER 7. Chaussade: Agrarian and Industrial Lord
- III. Market Problems, Return to Timber, and Retirement
- CHAPTER 8. Markets for Anchors, Irons, and Steel
- CHAPTER 9. The Business in the Decade of the American War
- CHAPTER 10. Chaussade in Retirement: Real Estate and Revolution
- Epilogue: Comparisons and Reflections
- Notes
- Glossary
- Sources
- Bibliography
- Index