Mastering the Market: The State and the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700-1860
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Throughout the eighteenth and early nineteeenth centuries, French regimes developed strategies to control the crucial grain trade.
List of Figures and TablesAbbreviationsOld Regime Weights and Measures for WheatAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Two Crises: 1709 and 18531Pt. 1The Market of the Enlightenment, 1720-1789251The Structure of Mill and Market272Simulated Sales: Shaping Supply and Demand in the Old Regime Marketplace503Scripting "Free" Trade724Narrowing the Focus: Bakers and Bread, 1760-178993Pt. 2Maximum: Feeding France in Revolution and War11551789: Municipal Revolutions and the Origins of Radicalism1166Unity and Interests1347Re-creating the Market: Thermidor and the Directory163Pt. 3The State Learns, 1800-18601978The Last Maximum: 18121989The Routines of the Restoration23610Relinquishing Control: Bakers and the End of the Paris Reserve25711The Market Mastered291Archival sources301Selected bibliography305Index325
