Main entry:

Reynard, Pierre-Claude.

Title & Author:

Ambitions tamed : urban expansion in pre-revolutionary Lyon / Pierre Claude Reynard.

Publication:

Montréal ; Ithaca, NY : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2009.

Description:

xxii, 261 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-255) and index.
Key institutions in eighteenth-century Lyon -- Introduction. Entrepreneurship in a premodern context -- The making of a vocation -- Decisive years : the Saint-Clair experience -- Conceiving the Brotteaux and securing a monopoly -- Opposition in context -- Saint-Clair Bridge : a well-managed enterprise and successful monopoly -- Resistance to expansion -- A fine balance.
Dust jacket.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information

ISBN:

9780773534926
077353492X
9780773575745 (e-book)
077357574X

Subject:

Morand, Jean Antoine, 1727-1794.
Morand, Jean Antoine.
Urbanization France Lyon History 18th century.
Cities and towns France Lyon Growth History 18th century.
Entrepreneurship France Lyon History 18th century.
Architects France Lyon Biography.
Urbanisation France Lyon Histoire 18e siècle.
Villes France Lyon Croissance Histoire 18e siècle.
Entrepreneuriat France Lyon Histoire 18e siècle.
Architectes France Lyon Biographies.
Architects.
Cities and towns Growth.
Entrepreneurship.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Urbanization.
Stadtentwicklung
Lyon (France) Politics and government 18th century.
Lyon (France) Social conditions 18th century.
Lyon (France) History 18th century.
Lyon (France) Administration 18e siècle.
Lyon (France) Conditions sociales 18e siècle.
Lyon (France) Histoire 18e siècle.
France Lyon.
Lyon

Form/genre:

Biographies.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 263676
Call No.: BIB 194907
Status: Available