How Long to Read The Transition to Capitalism in Modern France

How Long Does it Take to Read The Transition to Capitalism in Modern France?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 46 minutes to read The Transition to Capitalism in Modern France by Xavier Lafrance

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Historians, since the 1960s, argue that the French economy performed as well as did any economy in Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries thanks to the opportunities for profit available on the market, especially the large consumer market in Paris. Whatever economic weaknesses existed did not stem from the social structure but from exogenous forces such as wars, the lack of natural resources or slow demographic growth. This book challenges the foregoing consensus by showing that the French economy performed poorly relative to its rivals because of noncapitalist social relations. Specifically, peasants and artisans controlled lands and workshops in autonomous communities and did not have to improve labor productivity to survive. Merchants and manufacturers cornered markets instead of being subject to the market’s competitive imperatives. Thus, distinctive features of capitalism—primitive accumulation (the dispossession of peasants and artisans) and the competitive obligation faced by merchants and manufacturers to reinvest profits in order to keep the profits—did not prevail until the state imposed them in a process lasting for a century after the 1850s. For this reason, it was not until the 1960s that France caught up to (and in some cases surpassed) its economic rivals.

How long is The Transition to Capitalism in Modern France?

The Transition to Capitalism in Modern France by Xavier Lafrance is 283 pages long, and a total of 71,599 words.

This makes it 96% the length of the average book. It also has 88% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Transition to Capitalism in Modern France Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 31 minutes to read The Transition to Capitalism in Modern France aloud.

What Reading Level is The Transition to Capitalism in Modern France?

The Transition to Capitalism in Modern France is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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