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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Anterevolution, France was pre-industrial, feudal, and broke. Broke because its wealth (wealth that had been derived from the labor of serfs at home and slaves in her colonies, and the exploitation of indigenous peoples) had been wasted by its government and aristocracy on wars and extravagance. By 1789, wars and lifestyle had bled the country […] The post A Tale of Two Economies appeared first on Angry Bear.
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[unable to retrieve full-text content][unable to retrieve full-text content]Anterevolution, France was pre-industrial, feudal, and broke. Broke because its wealth (wealth that had been derived from the labor of serfs at home and slaves in her colonies, and the exploitation of indigenous peoples) had been wasted by its government and aristocracy on wars and extravagance. By 1789, wars and lifestyle had bled the country […] The post A Tale of Two Economies appeared first on Angry Bear.
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Anterevolution, France was pre-industrial, feudal, and broke. Broke because its wealth (wealth that had been derived from the labor of serfs at home and slaves in her colonies, and the exploitation of indigenous peoples) had been wasted by its government and aristocracy on wars and extravagance. By 1789, wars and lifestyle had bled the country […]
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