The Plow the Hammer and the Knout: An Economic History of Eighteenth-Century Russia
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Hardcover. Red cloth/boards with silver lettering. Red dj with bw illus. and white lettering. 399 pp. with no illus. NF interior with VG+ covers / Good- with chipping, esp. to top edge, and a one-inch chunk out of top edge. Item #146567
ISBN: 0226422534
"Kahan analyzes a massive collection of documents which revise traditional interpretations of 18th-c. Russian economic history as well as Petrine and post-Petrine documents that shed light on that society as lived on the individual level." With numerous tables of supportive data, the sections include population growth, industry, foreign trade, internal trade, transportation, banking and credit, the fiscal system, and political order.
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