The fruits of revolution : property rights, litigation, and French agriculture, 1700-1860 / Jean-Laurent Rosenthal.
1992
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Author
Title
The fruits of revolution : property rights, litigation, and French agriculture, 1700-1860 / Jean-Laurent Rosenthal.
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Call Number
HC275 .R59 1992
ISBN
0521392209
Description
xiv, 216 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)23973188
Note
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--California Institute of Technology, 1988
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-211) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of tables, figures, and maps
Series editors' preface
Preface
1Introduction
1
Pt. I
History and Economics
2The French Revolution and French economic history
9
3Institutions and economic growth
21
Pt. II
Drainage and Irrigation
4A survey of water control projects
39
5Relative prices and the supply of water control
59
6Drainage in the Pays d'Auge, 1700-1848: the weight of uncertain property rights
71
7The development of irrigation in Provence, 1700-1860: the French Revolution and economic growth
100
Pt. III
Property Rights and Litigation Under Absolutism
8The weaknesses of monopoly power
125
9Settlement, litigation, and the drainage of marshes in England and France, 1600-1840
149
10Conclusion
171
Appendix 1 Wages, land prices, and interest rates
180
Appendix 2 Estimating rates of return
189
Appendix 3 Theoretical proofs
196
Bibliography
202
Index
213