Peasants and Debt in Eighteenth-Century Champagne

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4762012
AutoresThomas Brennan (Thomas Brennan is Professor of History, United States Naval Academy. He is the author of Burgundy to Champagne: The Wine Trade in Early Modern France (Baltimore, 1997); Public Drinking and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Princeton, 1988).), Thomas E Brennan (Modern Academy, autor correspondente)
Ano2006
Volume37
Fascículo2
Páginas175-200
Data de publicação2006-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169
EditoraMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/jinh.2006.37.2.175
OpenAlexW2155103904
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas16

Recent scholarship about debt in early-modern Europe has replaced an old model of misery and exploitation with a new paradigm that emphasizes the entrepreneurial rationale for going into debt. Reassessment of these arguments on the basis of detailed information about 5,000 rural households in France finds that debt posed a high risk of ruin to nearly half of the region's debtors and that viticulture played a unique role in stimulating a borrowing frenzy in the countryside

Debt · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Political science · Scholarship · European Political History Analysis · Finance · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History