Provisioning Paris

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801416000
• ISBN13: 9780801416002
• Release Date: December 1984
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher