Privilege and Profit : A Business Family in Eighteenth-Century France /
Bamford, P. W.
Privilege and Profit : A Business Family in Eighteenth-Century France / P. W. Bamford. - Reprint 2016 - 1 online resource (448 p.) : 6 illus. - Anniversary Collection .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: State and Family -- I. A Family in the Timber Business -- CHAPTER 1. A Family of Entrepreneurs: Jacques Masson, the Babauds, Marie Boesnier, and Duportal of Saumur -- CHAPTER 2. The Development of the Family Timber Business, 1728-1738 -- CHAPTER 3. Deaths and Survivors: Marie Boesnier, Pierre Babaud de la Chaussade, and the Ongoing Business -- II. The New Family Business: Forged Anchors, Irons, and Steel -- CHAPTER 4. The Formation of the Family Forges Royales -- CHAPTER 5. Procurement and Production, Transport and Payments -- CHAPTER 6. An Industrial-Seigneurial Labor Force -- CHAPTER 7. Chaussade: Agrarian and Industrial Lord -- III. Market Problems, Return to Timber, and Retirement -- CHAPTER 8. Markets for Anchors, Irons, and Steel -- CHAPTER 9. The Business in the Decade of the American War -- CHAPTER 10. Chaussade in Retirement: Real Estate and Revolution -- Epilogue: Comparisons and Reflections -- Notes -- Glossary -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Index
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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812281354 9781512800333
10.9783/9781512800333 doi
Industrialists--France--Biography.
Iron industry and trade--History--France--18th century.
HISTORY / Europe / France.
Business. European History. History. World History.
HD9522.5
338.7/6691/0944
Privilege and Profit : A Business Family in Eighteenth-Century France / P. W. Bamford. - Reprint 2016 - 1 online resource (448 p.) : 6 illus. - Anniversary Collection .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: State and Family -- I. A Family in the Timber Business -- CHAPTER 1. A Family of Entrepreneurs: Jacques Masson, the Babauds, Marie Boesnier, and Duportal of Saumur -- CHAPTER 2. The Development of the Family Timber Business, 1728-1738 -- CHAPTER 3. Deaths and Survivors: Marie Boesnier, Pierre Babaud de la Chaussade, and the Ongoing Business -- II. The New Family Business: Forged Anchors, Irons, and Steel -- CHAPTER 4. The Formation of the Family Forges Royales -- CHAPTER 5. Procurement and Production, Transport and Payments -- CHAPTER 6. An Industrial-Seigneurial Labor Force -- CHAPTER 7. Chaussade: Agrarian and Industrial Lord -- III. Market Problems, Return to Timber, and Retirement -- CHAPTER 8. Markets for Anchors, Irons, and Steel -- CHAPTER 9. The Business in the Decade of the American War -- CHAPTER 10. Chaussade in Retirement: Real Estate and Revolution -- Epilogue: Comparisons and Reflections -- Notes -- Glossary -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812281354 9781512800333
10.9783/9781512800333 doi
Industrialists--France--Biography.
Iron industry and trade--History--France--18th century.
HISTORY / Europe / France.
Business. European History. History. World History.
HD9522.5
338.7/6691/0944