PEASANTS of LANGUEDOC

Hailed as a pioneering work of"total history" when it was published in France in 1966, Le Roy Ladurie'svolume combines elements of human geography, historical demography, economichistory, and folk culture in a broad depiction of a great agrarian cycle,lasting from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. It describes the conflictsand contradictions of a traditional peasant society in which the rise inpopulation 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 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