The Territory of the Historian - Hardcover

LeRoy Ladurie Emmanuel; Le Roy-Ladurie Emmanuel; Ladurie Emmanuel LeRoy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226473279 ISBN 13: 9780226473277

Publisher: A University of Chicago Press, 1979

Synopsis

“This collection illuminates the work of a truly remarkable scholar....singularly enjoyable and intellectually stimulating.” – IAIN STEVENSON. Journal of historical Geography.

“Exhilarating and humane.” NICHOLAS HYMAN, Tribune.

“No one has secured such international eminence nor has enjoyed such wide popular appeal... His particular virtuosity centres upon his readability, his superb imaginative talents and an uncanny knack of being to the fore of changing historical fashion. Sex, violence, religiosity, village sociability, climatic change, famine, sterility, literacy, death are but a few of the subjects he has explored in a dazzling career and which are reflected in this book.” – OLWEN HUFTON, The Times Higher Education Supplement.

“Any new book by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie is an event.” – DOUGLAS JOHNSON, New Society.

“An ingenious and successful combination of narrative and analysis, micro-history and macro-history...reveals the immense intellectual appetite of Le Roy Ladurie....” – PETER BURKE, New Statesman.

About this title

About the Author:

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie is a French historian whose work is mainly focused upon Languedoc in the Ancien Regime, particularly the history of the peasantry. His landmark book Montaillou - which was published in 1975 to wide acclaim - had a huge impact on historical studies and remains a classic.

About this edition

• Publisher: A University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0226473279
• ISBN 13: 9780226473277
• Binding: Hardcover