The Fruits of Revolution: Property Rights, Litigation and French Agriculture, 1700-1860 (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)

In The Fruits of Revolution Jean-Laurent Rosenthal investigates two central issues in French economic history: to what extent did institutions hold back agricultural development under the Old Regime, and did reforms carried out during the French Revolution significantly improve the structure of property rights in agriculture? Both questions have been the subject of much debate. Historians have tou…