Claude Fohlen

THE FONTANA ECONOMIC HISTORY OF EUROPE General Editor: Carlo M. Cipolla There is at present no satisfactory economic history of Europe - covering Europe both as a whole and with particular relation to the individual countries - that is both concise enough for convenient use and yet full enough to...

The Industrial Revolution in France THE SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM The expression 'Industrial Revolution', which made its appearance in the first third of the nineteenth century and has since then been widely used by economists and historians, covers without discrimination, in all countries, the...

France 1920—1970 In 1914, France undeniably occupied a position among the leading nations in the West; nevertheless, she was not one of the world's great economic powers. Formerly she had run second only to Britain; but in the closing years of the nineteenth century she had been overtaken by...

AVANT-PROPOSL'historien et le cinémaCe n'est point un hasard si la publication de mon livre, Jefferson a Paris, aura coincidé avec la sortie du film de James Ivory, Jefferson in Paris. Ni le bicentenaire du séjour de Mr Jefferson a Paris de 1784 a 1789, ni le deux cent cinquantieme...