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Eating, working, and saving in an unstable world: consumers in nineteenth-century France

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  • GILLES POSTEL-VINAY
  • JEAN-MARC ROBIN

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Studies of the scale and pattern of food consumption in France during the early modern period down to the mid nineteenth century have usually underscored the extent to which households depended on local agricultural production. In a country which was still rural, even peasant in character, the means of sustenance were seen as regionally varied and almost immutable over time. In this view, most of the food available in a given place came from the family land or from farms in the neighbourhood, and people were thus assumed to have found more than go per cent of their consumption needs within a very small area, perhaps within a radius of three miles (...).
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  • Gilles Postel-Vinay & Jean-Marc Robin, 1992. "Eating, working, and saving in an unstable world: consumers in nineteenth-century France," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 45(3), pages 494-513, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ehsrev:v:45:y:1992:i:3:p:494-513
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    1. Vincent Bignon & Cecilia Garcia-Peñalosa, 2018. "The Toll of Tariffs: Protectionism, Education and Fertility in Late 19th Century France," Working papers 690, Banque de France.
    2. Fass, Simon M., 1995. "Fast food in development," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 23(9), pages 1555-1573, September.
    3. Sánchez León, Pablo, 1998. "Markets, institutions and culture patterns of wine consumption in europe, 1850-1950," IFCS - Working Papers in Economic History.WH 6180, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Figuerola.

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