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The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775 (Hardcover)
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The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775 (Hardcover)
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In preindustrial Europe, dependence on grain shaped every phase of
life from economic development to spiritual expression, and the
problem of subsistence dominated the everyday order of things in a
merciless and unremitting way. Steven Laurence Kaplan's The Bakers
of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775 focuses on the
production and distribution of France's most important commodity in
the sprawling urban center of eighteenth-century Paris where
provisioning needs were most acutely felt and most difficult to
satisfy. Kaplan shows how the relentless demand for bread
constructed the pattern of daily life in Paris as decisively and
subtly as elaborate protocol governed the social life at
Versailles. Despite the overpowering salience of bread in public
and private life, Kaplan's is the first inquiry into the ways bread
exercised its vast and significant empire. Bread framed dreams as
well as nightmares. It was the staff of life, the medium of
communion, a topic of common discourse, and a mark of tradition as
well as transcendence. In his exploration of bread's materiality
and cultural meaning, Kaplan looks at bread's fashioning of
identity and examines the conditions of supply and demand in the
marketplace. He also sets forth a complete history of the bakers
and their guild, and unmasks the methods used by the authorities in
their efforts to regulate trade. Because the bakers and their bread
were central to Parisian daily life, Kaplan's study is also a
comprehensive meditation on an entire society, its government, and
its capacity to endure. Long-awaited by French history scholars,
The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775 is a landmark
in eighteenth-century historiography, a book that deeply
contextualizes, and thus enriches our understanding of one of the
most important eras in European history.
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