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Privilege and Profit : A Business Family in Eighteenth-Century France / P. W. Bamford.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bamford, P. W., Author.
- Series:
- Anniversary Collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Babaud de La Chaussade, Pierre, 1702-1792.
- Babaud de La Chaussade, Pierre.
- Industrialists--France--Biography.
- Industrialists.
- Iron industry and trade--France--History--18th century.
- Iron industry and trade.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (350 p.) : 6 illus.
- Edition:
- Reprint 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: State and Family
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781512800333
- 1512800333
- OCLC:
- 979968920
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