The Fruits of Revolution: Property Rights, Litigation, and French Agriculture, 1700–1860
本书研究旧制度下的制度如何阻碍农业发展，以及法国大革命期间的改革是否显著改善了农业产权结构，基于档案调查聚焦产权对水利控制的影响。
In The Fruits of Revolution Jean-Laurent Rosenthal investigates two central questions in French economic history: To what extent did institutions hold back agricultural development under the Old Regime, and did reforms carried out during the French Revolution significantly improve the structure of property rights in agriculture? Both questions have been the subject of much debate. Historians have touched on them in a number of local studies, yet usually they have been more concerned with community conflict than with economic development. Economists generally have researched the performance of the French economy without paying much attention to the impact of institutions on specific areas of the economy. This book attempts to utilize the best of both approaches: It focuses on broad questions of economic change, yet it is based on detailed archival investigations of the impact of property rights on water control