'Gwynne Lewis has sensitively integrated evidence from Tubeuf's hitherto neglected journals with extensive knowledge of the political economy of eighteenth-century France to form a unique judgement on the economy's prolonged transition to modern industrial capitalism. This is a book for the specialist business historian of France, yet the broad approach to historical analysis exemplified in this study could well enhance the discipline of business history in general.'Katrina Honeyman, University of Leeds, Business History

• Pierre-Francois Tubeuf and the foundations of a modern coal-mining industry; the Marechal de Castries - aristocrats and proto-industrialization; the impact of a revolutionary crisis; revolution, recession and the rights of property-owners; the return of the Tubeufs - an abortive "take-off"; the Bourbon-restoration - "plus ca change..."; 1830 - the take-off.

'Gwynne Lewis has sensitively integrated evidence from Tubeuf's hitherto neglected journals with extensive knowledge of the political economy of eighteenth-century France to form a unique judgement on the economy's prolonged transition to modern industrial capitalism. This is a book for the specialist business historian of France, yet the broad approach to historical analysis exemplified in this study could well enhance the discipline of business history in general.'Katrina Honeyman, University of Leeds, Business History

• Pierre-Francois Tubeuf and the foundations of a modern coal-mining industry; the Marechal de Castries - aristocrats and proto-industrialization; the impact of a revolutionary crisis; revolution, recession and the rights of property-owners; the return of the Tubeufs - an abortive "take-off"; the Bourbon-restoration - "plus ca change..."; 1830 - the take-off.

'Gwynne Lewis has sensitively integrated evidence from Tubeuf's hitherto neglected journals with extensive knowledge of the political economy of eighteenth-century France to form a unique judgement on the economy's prolonged transition to modern industrial capitalism. This is a book for the specialist business historian of France, yet the broad approach to historical analysis exemplified in this study could well enhance the discipline of business history in general.'Katrina Honeyman, University of Leeds, Business History

• Pierre-Francois Tubeuf and the foundations of a modern coal-mining industry; the Marechal de Castries - aristocrats and proto-industrialization; the impact of a revolutionary crisis; revolution, recession and the rights of property-owners; the return of the Tubeufs - an abortive "take-off"; the Bourbon-restoration - "plus ca change..."; 1830 - the take-off.