TY - BOOK AU - Bamford,P.W. TI - Privilege and Profit: A Business Family in Eighteenth-Century France T2 - Anniversary Collection SN - 9780812281354 AV - HD9522.5 U1 - 338.7/6691/0944 19 PY - 2016///] CY - Philadelphia : PB - University of Pennsylvania Press, KW - Industrialists KW - France KW - Biography KW - Iron industry and trade KW - History KW - 18th century KW - HISTORY / Europe / France KW - bisacsh KW - Business KW - European History KW - World History N1 - 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; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512800333 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781512800333 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781512800333/original ER -