Examining the social and political history of workers and entrepreneurs engaged in constructing the French capital from 1763-1815, this book argues that Paris construction was a core sector in which 'archaic' and 'innovative' practices were symbiotically used by guilds, the state, and enterprises to launch thecommercial revolution in France. INDICE: List of illustrations - Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Parisian Construction at the End of the Ancien Régime: The Building Trades, The Pre-Industrial Market, And The Guild Debate, 1750-1789 - The Revolution and Construction Guilds, 1789-1793 - Projecting the Revolution on the Parisian Work Site, 1789-1793 - The Building Trades in the Terror and Thermidor, 1793-1795 - Reconciling Commerce and Revolution, 1795-1805 - Constraining Capital, Containing Labor: State Urban Planning In Paris, 1802-1815 - Conclusion and Epilogue - Appendix - Notes and Bibliography
- ISBN: 978-0-230-57471-7
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 368
- Fecha Publicación: 29/10/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés