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Peasants of Languedoc

  • ISBN-13: 9780252006357
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie, Translated by John Day
  • Price: AUD $60.99
  • Stock: 2 in stock
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  • Local release date: 16/03/1977
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 384 pages Weight: 560g
  • Categories: History [HB]
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Hailed as a pioneering work of total history" when it was published in France in 1966, Le Roy Laduries 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 rural history, an analysis of economic change and a description of a societyin movement that has few equals.-- Washington Post Book WorldIt is without any doubt one of the most important, if not the most important, monograph of the French Annales school of socio-economichistorians written in the last decade. -- Canadian Historical Review

"It presents us with a great study of rural history, an analysis of economic change and a description of a societyin movement that has few equals."
-- Washington Post Book World

"It is without any doubt one of the most important, if not the most important, monograph of the French Annales school of socio-economichistorians written in the last decade."
-- Canadian Historical Review

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