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The Transition to Capitalism in Modern France: Primitive Accumulation and Markets from the Old Regime to the post-WWII Era

The Transition to Capitalism in Modern France: Primitive Accumulation and Markets from the Old Regime to the post-WWII Era

Paperback

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of France

French HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 036755304X
ISBN13: 9780367553043
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 27 2025
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book challenges the foregoing consensus by showing that the French economy performed poorly relative to its rivals because of non-capitalist social relations. Specifically, peasants and artisans controlled the lands and workshops in autonomous communities and did not have to improve labor productivity to survive.

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