The Fruits of Revolution: Property Rights, Litigation and French Agriculture, 1700 1860 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521392204)

In The Fruits of Revolution Jean-Laurent Rosenthal investigates two central issues in French economic history: to what extent did institutions hold back agricultural development under the Old Regime, and did reforms carried out during the French Revolution significantly improve the structure of property rights in agriculture? Both questions have been the subject of much debate. Historians have touched on these issues in a number of local studies, yet they usually have been more concerned with community conflict than with economic development. Economists generally have researched the performance of the French economy without paying much attention to the impact of institutions on specific areas of the economy. This book attempts to utilize the best of both approaches: it focuses on broad questions of economic change, yet it is based on detailed archival investigations into the impact of property rights on water control.

Author: Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
ISBN-10: 0521392209
ISBN-13: 9780521392204
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/28/1992
Pages: 236
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.19w x 0.77d