Description: Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question 1, Hardcover by Kaplan, Steven Laurence, ISBN 0822317060, ISBN-13 9780822317067, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 Kaplans The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 17001775 focuses on the production and distribution of Frances 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 the pattern of daily life in Paris as decisively and subtly as elaborate protocol governed the social life at Versailles. Despite the overpowering salience of bread in public and private life, Kaplans is the first inquiry into the ways bread exercised its vast and significant empire. Bread framed dreams as well as nightmares. It was the staff of life, the medium of communion, a topic of common discourse, and a mark of tradition as well as transcendence. In his exploration of breads materiality and cultural meaning, Kaplan looks at breads fashioning of identity and examines the conditions of supply and demand in the marketplace. He also sets forth a complete history of the bakers and their guild, and unmasks the methods used by the authorities in their efforts to regulate trade. Because the bakers and their bread were central to Parisian daily life, Kaplans study is also a comprehensive meditation on an entire society, its government, and its capacity to endure. Long-awaited by French history scholars, The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 17001775 is a landmark in eighteenth-century historiography, a book that deeply contextualizes, and thus enriches our understanding of one of the most important eras in European history.
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Book Title: Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775
Number of Pages: 784 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Topic: Food Science, Europe / France, Courses & Dishes / Bread, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy)
Publication Year: 1996
Item Height: 2.2 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Cooking, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 44.7 Oz
Author: Steven Laurence Kaplan
Item Length: 9.8 in
Item Width: 6.7 in
Format: Hardcover
