The Modernization of Rural France: Communications Networks and Agricultural Market Structures in Nineteenth-Century France Contributor(s): Price, Roger (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138046140 ISBN-13: 9781138046146 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $217.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - France - History | United States - 19th Century - Social Science | Human Geography |
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Rural History |
Physical Information: 502 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book, first published in 1983, is a major contribution to our understanding of how and why French rural peasant society became modernised by radical changes in the communications system - in particular, the coming of the railways. The author argues that complex changes in the transport systems, and their effects on agricultural market structures, finally brought traditional French rural civilisation to an end. With the extension of commercialisation, and the widening of horizons, new economic and social structures - and changed attitudes - rapidly came into being. Writing as an economic historian, the author has adopted an interdisciplinary approach to this study which incorporates economic, sociological, historical and geographical methods and data. |