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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 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

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      Publisher: University of Illinois Press
      Publication Date: 01/01/1977
      ISBN13: 9780252006357, 978-0252006357
      ISBN10: 0252006356
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 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

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