caa a22 4500 386330549 CHVBK 20180307111712.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022050700008809 doi S0022050700008809 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022050700008809 A Spatial Approach to Structural Change: The Making of the French Hexagon [Elektronische Daten] Previous studies explain the extension of royal power in fifteenth-century France by the professionalization of military combat or by the commercialization of economic activity. Neither approach can account for the turnaround in Charles VII's fortunes between 1435 and 1445. Using Lösch's model of spatial competition to examine the determinants of state borders, we suggest that the key factor in the formation of the French hexagon was an innovation in artillery projectiles that increased military scale economies. A reduction in state economic intervention apparently accompanied this development rather than the increase suggested elsewhere. Copyright © The Economic History Association 1989 Blum Ulrich Professor of Political Economy, Universität Bamberg, Postfach 1549, D-8600, Bamberg, German Federal Republic Dudley Leonard Professor of Economics, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3C 3J7. The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 49/3(1989-09), 657-675 0022-0507 49:3<657 1989 49 JEH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700008809 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700008809 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Blum Ulrich Professor of Political Economy, Universität Bamberg, Postfach 1549, D-8600, Bamberg, German Federal Republic NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dudley Leonard Professor of Economics, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3C 3J7 NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 49/3(1989-09), 657-675 0022-0507 49:3<657 1989 49 JEH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge