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Provisioning Paris - Merchants and Millers in the Grain and Flour Trade during the Eighteenth Century (Hardcover)
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Provisioning Paris - Merchants and Millers in the Grain and Flour Trade during the Eighteenth Century (Hardcover)
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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. Who were the agents of the provisioning trade? What
were their commercial practices? What sorts of relations did they
maintain with each other? How did the authorities regulate their
business? To answer these questions, Professor Kaplan combed the
archives and libraries of France. He maps out the elementary
structures of the trade and shows how they were transformed as a
result of cultural and political as well as commercial and
technological changes. In rich ethnographic detail he evokes the
dayto-day life of merchants, millers, bakers, brokers, and market
officials. He shows how flour superseded grain and how the millers
overtook the merchants in the provisioning process. He explores the
tension between the suppliers' need for freedom and the consumers'
need for security. Even as he weaves the intricate patterns of life
inside and outside the marketplace he never loses sight of the
immense interests at stake: the stability and legitimacy of the
government, the durability of the social structure, and the
survival of the people.
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