The rise of market culture : the textile trade and French society, 1750-1900 /

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Author / Creator:Reddy, William M.
Imprint:Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press ; Paris : Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 1984.
Description:xii, 402 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/624684
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ISBN:0521256534
Notes:Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 337-393.
Table of Contents:
  • List of figures and maps
  • List of abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I. A World Without Entrepreneurs, 1750-1815
  • 1. Commerce as conflict
  • 2. The design of the spinning jenny
  • 3. New terms and old practices
  • Part II. Uses of the Market Idea, 1816-1851
  • 4. The first crisis of management
  • 5. Spinners on guard
  • 6. Visions of subsistence
  • 7. A search for identity
  • Part III. Unquestioned Assumptions, 1852-1904
  • 8. The clock time of the Second Empire
  • 9. The moral sense of farce
  • 10. Little insurrections
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliographical note
  • Index