The Modernization of Rural France

Communications Networks and Agricultural Market Structures in Nineteenth-Century France

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3330100
AutoresPeter H Amann, Peter Amann (0000-0003-3775-5442), Roger Price (autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Páginas502
Fecha de publicación2017-07-06
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaModernization of Rural France (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315171517
OpenAlexW4256189720
Open LibraryOL53975259M
ISBN9781315171517
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas22

This book, first published in 1983, is a major contribution to our understanding of how and why French rural peasant society became modernised by radical changes in the communications system – in particular, the coming of the railways. The author argues that complex changes in the transport systems, and their effects on agricultural market structures, finally brought traditional French rural civilisation to an end. With the extension of commercialisation, and the widening of horizons, new economic and social structures – and changed attitudes – rapidly came into being. Writing as an economic historian, the author has adopted an interdisciplinary approach to this study which incorporates economic, sociological, historical and geographical methods and data

Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Archaeology · Business · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Geography · Modernization theory · Political science · Rural area · Rural history · French Urban and Social Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Agriculture, economic aspects · Economic aspects · Economic conditions · Europe · France · Rural conditions · Rural development · Transportation