Work, Regulation, and Identity in Provincial France: The Bordeaux Leather Trades, 1740–1815

Heimmermann, D.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2015-12-18

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349493999

DOI: 10.1057/9781137438591

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 298