Book contents
- Economic Development in Early Modern France
- Cambridge Studies in Economic History
- Economic Development in Early Modern France
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Book part
- Glossary
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Privileged enclaves and the guilds
- 3 The privilege of liberty put to the test
- 4 Companies, colonies, and contraband
- 5 Privilege, liberty, and managing the market
- 6 Outside the body politic, essential to the body economic
- 7 Privilege, innovation, and the state
- 8 The reign of liberty?
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2015
- Economic Development in Early Modern France
- Cambridge Studies in Economic History
- Economic Development in Early Modern France
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Book part
- Glossary
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Privileged enclaves and the guilds
- 3 The privilege of liberty put to the test
- 4 Companies, colonies, and contraband
- 5 Privilege, liberty, and managing the market
- 6 Outside the body politic, essential to the body economic
- 7 Privilege, innovation, and the state
- 8 The reign of liberty?
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Economic Development in Early Modern FranceThe Privilege of Liberty, 1650–1820, pp. 285 - 304Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
References
Bibliography
This book draws on archival research for this and previous projects stretching back to 1990. In addition to the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Archives Nationales located in Paris, I consulted departmental archives in the Aube, Bouches-du-Rhône (Aix-en-Provence and Marseille), Gironde, Loire, Seine-Maritime, and Somme. I also made use of the municipal archives and libraries of Amiens, Bordeaux, Paris, Rouen, Saint-Étienne, and Troyes, as well as specialized collections like the Archives de la Chambre de Commerce et industrie de Marseille-Provence and the archives of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris. I was surprised and pleased to see how many pieces of information and primary sources, especially legal documents, could be found on Gallica (gallica.bnf.fr) or through Googlebooks (books.google.com). As a complement (never a replacement!) to archival research, these electronic repositories are enormously valuable. I could not have written this book in a reasonable amount of time without them. However, without deep familiarity with archival sources, I would neither have known what to look for nor understood what I had found.