Labour, science, and technology in France, 1500-1620

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Labour, science, and technology in France, 1500-1620

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Henry Heller

Title variation

Labour, Science & Technology in France, 1500–1620

Creator

• Heller, Henry

Subject

• France -- History -- 16th century
• Industrialization -- France -- History -- 16th century
• Labor supply -- France -- History -- 16th century
• Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- France -- History -- 16th century
• Technology and state -- France -- History -- 16th century
• France -- Economic policy

Language

eng

Summary

For a generation, the history of the ancien régime has been written from the perspective of the Annales school, with its emphasis on the role of long-term economic and cultural factors in shaping the development of early modern France. In this detailed 1995 study, Henry Heller challenges such a paradigm and assembles a huge range of information about technical innovation and ideas of improvement in sixteenth-century France. Emphasising the role of state intervention in the economy, the development of science and technology, and recent research into early modern proto-industrialisation, Heller counters notions of a France mired in an archaic, determinist mentalité. Despite the tides of religious fanaticism and seigneurial reaction, the period of the religious wars saw a surprising degree of economic, technological and scientific innovation, making possible the consolidation of capitalism in French society during the reign of Henri IV.--

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• Cambridge studies in early modern history

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UkCbUP

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index present

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non fiction

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dictionaries

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• Cambridge studies in early modern history
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks