Growth in a Traditional Society: The French Countryside, 1450-1815: 7 (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

by PhilipT.Hoffman (Author)

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  Shatters the myth that traditional agricultural societies in early modern Europe were socially and economically stagnant. Through a detailed historical investigation of the peasant agriculture of ancien-regime France, this book uncovers evidence that requires an understanding of what constituted economic growth in such societies.