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The path not taken : French industrialization in the age of revolution, 1750-1830 /

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Arguing that - contrary to Anglocentric accounts - French industrialization was not a failed imitation of the laissez-faire British model, but the product of a distinctive industrial policy that over the long-term led to prosperity comparable to Britain's, this text offers a comparison between...

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Main Author: Horn, Jeff (Historian)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
Series:Transformations
Subjects:
Industrialization > France > History > 18th century.
Industrialization > France > History > 19th century.
Industrialization > England > History > 18th century.
Industrialization > England > History > 19th century.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Arguing that - contrary to Anglocentric accounts - French industrialization was not a failed imitation of the laissez-faire British model, but the product of a distinctive industrial policy that over the long-term led to prosperity comparable to Britain's, this text offers a comparison between the two approaches.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 383 pages) : maps.
ISBN:9780262275705
0262275708
1282097830
9781282097834
1429416114
9781429416115
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262083522.001.0001