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The Fruits of Revolution: Property Rights, Litigation and French Agriculture, 1700-1860 (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)

By Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

Book information

Year
1992
ISBN
0521392209, 9780521392204
LCC
HC275 .R59 1992
Open Library ID
OL1541371M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6135514 bytes)
Pages
236\231
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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