Labour, science, and technology in France, 1500-1620 / Henry Heller.
Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge studies in early modern historyPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996Description: 1 online resource (xii, 258 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780511523342 (ebook)
- Labour, Science & Technology in France, 1500-1620
- Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- France -- History -- 16th century
- Technology and state -- France -- History -- 16th century
- Industrialization -- France -- History -- 16th century
- Labor supply -- France -- History -- 16th century
- France -- Economic policy
- France -- History -- 16th century
- 338/.064/094409031 20
- HC280.T4 H45 1996
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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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