The Peasants of Languedoc
by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
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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 show more 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 society in 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-economic historians written in the last decade." -- Canadian Historical Review show lessTags
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Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie is a professor at the College de France and a member of the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques.
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- Original title
- Les paysans de Languedoc
- Original publication date
- 1969
- Important places
- Languedoc, France
- Original language
- French
Classifications
- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, Anthropology, Sociology, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 301.444309448 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Sociology and anthropology Formerly: Social structure
- LCC
- HD649 .L33 .L413 — Social sciences Industries. Land use. Labor Industries. Land use. Labor Land use
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- 176
- Popularity
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- Reviews
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- Languages
- 5 — Dutch, English, French, German, Italian
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 14
- ASINs
- 4
