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Grain Markets in Europe, 1500–1900 Integration and Deregulation Karl Gunnar Persson University of Copenhagen The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia © Karl Gunnar Persson 1999 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1999 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge Typeset in Plantin 10/12 pt in QuarkXPress™ [] A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Persson, Karl Gunnar, 1943– Grain markets in Europe, 1500–1900 : integration and deregulation / Karl Gunnar Persson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-521-65096-8 (hbk.) 1. Grain trade–Europe. 2. Grain trade–Government policy– Europe. 3. Grain trade–Deregulation–Europe. I. Title. HD9045.A2P47 1999 381′.4131′094–dc21 99-12834 CIP ISBN 0 521 65096 8 hardback Contents List of gures page xi List of tables xiii Preface xv Acknowledgements xviii List of abbreviations xx 1 Bread and Enlightenment: the quest for price stability and free trade in eighteenth-century Europe 1