Introduction -- I Bread: Demand and Supply -- 1. Breadways -- 2. Bread Making -- 3. Baker Shops and Bread Markets -- 4. The Forain World -- 5. Bread on Credit -- II Bakers: Social Structure and Life Cycle -- 6. The Guild -- 7. From Apprentice to Journeyman -- 8. At Work -- 9. The Journeyman's World outside the Shop -- 10. Establishment -- 11. Marriage Strategies and Family Life -- 12. Fortune -- 13. Bakers as Debtors -- 14. Failure -- 15. Reputation -- III Police of Bread and Bakers -- 16. Primer to Policing: Figuring Supply and Consumption -- 17. The Police of Bakers -- 18. Setting the Price of Bread -- 19. Policing the Price of Bread, 1725-1780 -- Conclusion
Summary
In preindustrial Europe, dependence on grain shaped every phase of life from economic development to spiritual expression, and the problem of subsistence dominated the everyday order of things in a merciless and unremitting way. Steven Laurence Kaplan's The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775 focuses on the production and distribution of France's most important commodity in the sprawling urban center of eighteenth-century Paris where provisioning needs were most acutely felt and most difficult to satisfy. Kaplan shows how the relentless demand for bread constructed th
Analysis
Bakers and bakeries History 18th century France Paris Region
Bread Prices History 18th century France Paris Region
Bread industry History 18th century France Paris Region
Food supply History 18th century France Paris Region
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 717-744) and index
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