Description and condition:

Black boards hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 503pp, index, bibliography, maps.

Very good with nice bright clean pages throughout. In similar dustcover with partial age browning.

Contents:

Communications networks and agricultural market structures in nineteenth-century France. Food production and supply prior to railway construction: agriculture before the railway; pre-rail communication networks; agricultural market structures before the coming of the railway. Social crisis: subsistence crises and popular misery; subsistence crises and popular protest; an end to dearth. Transport revolution and agriculture: the transport revolution railways, roads, waterways; modernizing market structures; agriculture in a changing market.