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Work, Regulation, and Identity in Provincial France

The Bordeaux Leather Trades, 1740–1815
By:D. Heimmermann
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781349493999
eText ISBN:9781137438591
Edition:0
Copyright:2014
Format:Reflowable

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The 18th-century French leather industry was a strategically important manufacturing sector, one vital to both civilian and military life. This study examines the production of leather in the Bordeaux trades during the 18th and 19th centuries, illuminating the realities of a craft economy and its relation to the wider French political economy.