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Philip Hoffman shatters the widespread myth that traditional agricultural societies in early modern Europe were socially and economically stagnant and ultimately dependent on wide-scale political revolution for their growth. Through a richly detailed historical investigation of the peasant agriculture of ancien-régime France, the author uncovers evidence that requires a new understanding of what constituted economic growth in such societies. His arguments rest on a measurement of long-term growth that enables him to analyze the economic, institutional, and political factors that explain its forms and rhythms. In comparing France with England and Germany, Hoffman arrives at fresh answers to ...
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Evoquer le travail du charbon à l'ouest de la France peut paraître une gageure. Or, l'ambiguïté se lève à l'étude des mines nantaises entre le XVIII e et le XXe siècles. L'histoire du bassin ligérien ne cesse en effet de nous étonner par la vitalité de ses exploitations, promues, en leurs temps, modèle d'économie pionnière. Les concessions minières perdureront jusqu'au milieu du XXe siècle. Ils en existent deux d'importance avant la Révolution : Languin et Montrelais, qui se subdivisent aux siècles suivant pour en créer deux nouvelles : les Touches et Mouzeil. Les conditions économiques et la richesse des sites sont inégales. La concession de Montrelais est de loin la pl...
The Gospels tell us almost nothing about St. Joseph, yet his life is full of spiritual treasures. Michel Gasnier O.P., here shows you where to find them and how they can enrich your own relationship with God. In this series of brief meditations he explores St. Josephs work as a carpenter, his marriage, his character, the flight into Egypt, his return to Nazareth, Simeons prophecy, and more. He gives you an enlightening portrait of this man who remains one of the Churchs most extraordinary saints and intercessors. Joseph the Silent is the appropriate title for a book about an extraordinary man who was chosen by God to marry the virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus, who plays such an incredible role in salvation history, whose involvement is spelled out in Scripture (especially the Gospels of Matthew and Luke), but who never speaks a single word to us. Nothing he ever said is recorded there.
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