La navigation intérieure sous l'Ancien Régime
Subtitle: naissance d'une politique publique
By: Éric Szulman ; préface d'Anne Conchon et Dominique Margairaz
Contributors: Conchon, Anne, writer of preface; Margairaz, Dominique, writer of preface
Series: Collection "Histoire"; Collection "Histoire" (Rennes, France); Collection "Histoire" (Rennes, France)
Publisher: Presses Universitaires de Rennes
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Rennes
Language: fre
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9782753529427
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Inland navigation; Government policy; History
Description: "La navigation intérieure", or inland navigation (IWT) is a special category of public action in France which has progressively emerged during the eighteenth century. It induces a new perception of traffic that the advent of a system of interconnected water channels would be a way for the state to build a national market and unifying its territory. Insofar as the king and his administration will be the first beneficiaries of enrichment induced by increased business and opportunities for movement, they should be the main promoters. Clearly formulated in the second half of the eighteenth century, such a design is the result of a unique history in which the interacting economic, political, intellectual and administrative. Since Colbert and even 1770s, inland waterways rose from the stall next to public concern that administrative object before being introduced in public policy from Turgot. The book explores the pathways by which the prosecution has built and institutionalized grasp the intellectual and administrative procedures, identifying sets of actors with which it was forged.
Notes: Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-365) and index.
Table of contents: title: L'émergence d'une préoccupation publique (vers 1660-vers 1740); title: La navigation intérieure comme nouvea domaine d'administration (vers 1740-1763); title: Le plan Bertin (1763-1773) ou l'instituionnalisation d'une catégorie d'action publique; title: Le plan Turgot (1774-1776), la concrétisation d'sun élan décisif; title: La publicisation du débat (1760-1790): logiques et dynamiques; title: Les pratiques et les circuits administratifs d'une politique coordonée (1775-1790); title: Naissance d'une politique (1): financement et construction de nouvelles infrastructures; title: Naissance d'une politique publique (1): les réformes de la police de la navigation; title: La rupture révolutionnaire (1790-1792).