Economic Development in Early Modern France : The Privilege of Liberty, 1650-1820 (Paperback)

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction: profits and economic development during the Old Regime; 2. Privileged enclaves and the guilds: liberty and regulation; 3. The privilege of liberty put to the test: industrial development in Normandy; 4. Companies, colonies, and contraband: commercial privileges under the Old Regime; 5. Privilege, liberty, and managing the market: trading with the Levant; 6. Outside the body politic, essential to the body economic: the privileges of Jews, Protestants and foreign residents; 7. Privilege, innovation, and the state: entrepreneurialism and the lessons of the Old Regime; 8. The reign of liberty? Privilege after 1789; Bibliography; Index.