Search Results for: French Capitalism In The Nineteenth Century

In The Making of Capitalism in France, Xavier Lafrance offers the first thorough analysis of the origins of French capitalism, understood as distinct type of hi

The modernisation of the French economy in the nineteenth century raises a difficult question for the historian. The country experienced definite advances but a

How France's elites used soft power to pursue their imperial ambitions in the nineteenth century After Napoleon's downfall in 1815, France embraced a mostly inf