The path not taken :: French industrialization in the age of revolution, 1750-1830 /

Arguing that - contrary to Anglocentric accounts - French industrialization was not a failed imitation of the laissez-faire British model, but the product of a distinctive industrial policy that over the long-term led to prosperity comparable to Britain's, this text offers a comparison between...

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Main Author: Horn, Jeff (Historian)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
Series:Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Arguing that - contrary to Anglocentric accounts - French industrialization was not a failed imitation of the laissez-faire British model, but the product of a distinctive industrial policy that over the long-term led to prosperity comparable to Britain's, this text offers a comparison between the two approaches.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 383 pages) : maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-371) and index.
ISBN:9780262275705
0262275708
1282097830
9781282097834
1429416114
9781429416115

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