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Examines the rhythms of production in the Montgolfier paper mill, one of the largest in eighteenth-century France. View of historians on early industrial work; What Montgolfier output registers reveal.

Presents an abstract of a conference paper on the evolution of the revenue farms in France since the 1660s.

Presents an abstract of a conference paper on John Law's system of public and private finance in France between 1716 and 1720.

Discusses studies made concerning the economic history in Europe. Effect of cartel on the demand and supply system of coal trade in London, England between 1770-1845; Discussion on demand elasticities; Line of reasoning advanced in the study of sharecropping growth in France between 1500 and 1700.

Discusses studies made on the economic history of Europe. Issues concerning Russian agrarian reform and economic conditions of peasants from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries; Interpretation on the severity of agricultural impoverishment in Russia; Role of demographic factors in the pattern of landownership in Combraille, France during the late nineteenth century.

By 1939 expectations in France of a major colonial contribution to the impending war effort were high. The idea of le salut par l'empire, literally ‘salvation by the empire’, even gained some currency among ministers, officials, and the wider public. This article examines the nature of the economic and military demands imposed on France's major overseas territories in the immediate pre-war years, focusing on the two pre-eminent colonial groupings of the empire: French North Africa and the Indochina federation. It suggests that colonial economies and working populations were poorly placed to meet French expectations of them. The colonies were severely affected by the economic depression of the early 1930s and slower to recover than metropolitan France. Structural economic difficulties imposed limits on the mobilization of colonial resources, a problem made appreciably worse by the earlier disagreements among ministers, colonial officials, and business leaders over the merits of colonial industrialization. The reversal of planned social and constitutional reforms after 1936 added to the political volatility and social divisions of colonial societies as war drew near. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Investigates the relationship between income and fertility in a town in Burgundy, France from 1744 to 1779. Increase in income over the life cycle; Decline in marital fertility; Probability density function.

Uses wage gaps between farm and city to assess whether industrialization in late nineteenth-century France was choked off by peasants' alleging reluctance to move. The landless agricultural labor force; The size of wage gaps; The wage gap trend, rural emigration, and urbanization.

Explains the growth of sharecropping in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France using a simple economic model of contract choice. Impact of sharecropping on peasants' social status; Implications of sharecropping for the economic condition of the countryside.

Examines the spread of sharecropping that followed a wave of investment in agriculture in 16th- and 17th-century France. Economic theories that explains the prevalence of sharecropping arrangements in the contemporary world; Implications of the trend.

Attempts to explain the diffusion of intensive mixed husbandry in Northern France from 1815-1840. Role of soil type in the allocation of land to leguminous fodder crops; Implications of the calculations conducted.

Comments on a series of articles focusing on economic history. Assessment of coal mining in France during the 19th century; Causes and consequences of foreign firms operating in Russia in the late 19th and early 20th century.