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The Peasants of Languedoc
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
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Paperback.
Hailed as a pioneering work of
"total history" when it was published in France in 1966, Le Roy Ladurie's
volume combines elements of human geography, historical demography, economic
history, and folk culture in a broad depiction of a great agrarian cycle,
lasting from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. It describes the conflicts
and contradictions of a traditional peasant society in which the rise in
population was not matched by increases in wealth and food production.
"It presents us with a great study of ... Read more
Hailed as a pioneering work of
"total history" when it was published in France in 1966, Le Roy Ladurie's
volume combines elements of human geography, historical demography, economic
history, and folk culture in a broad depiction of a great agrarian cycle,
lasting from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. It describes the conflicts
and contradictions of a traditional peasant society in which the rise in
population was not matched by increases in wealth and food production.
"It presents us with a great study of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1977
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252006357
SKU
V9780252006357
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