An Economic History of Modern France, 1730-1914 |
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COMMUNICATION AND THE DEVELOPMENT | 1 |
AGRICULTURE | 42 |
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT c 1730c 1880 | 93 |
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19e siècle agriculture Alsace Ancien Régime areas Ariège au 19e siècle banks Bourgogne Canal Canal du Midi capital cent centres cereals chemins de fer coal commercial communications competition concentration consequences construction cotton countryside crises crisis crops cultivation Dauphiné decline demand diet économique effects eighteenth century enterprises especially established existence factors fluctuations française French growing growth harvest hectolitres Histoire important improved increased increasingly innovation investment July Monarchy l'économie labour Labrousse land Languedoc large numbers Le Creusot limited Loire Lyon major market structures Massif Central merchants metallurgy million modernisation Mulhouse nineteenth century Nord occurred Paris particularly Pas-de-Calais peasants period phylloxera polyculture poor population production profits rail railway rapid reduced région regions relatively remained Revolution Rhône roads rural industry Second Empire sectors shortage significant slow social société stimulated supply survival tariffs technical techniques textiles tonnes towns trade traffic transport costs urban whilst workers