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There cannot be much serious doubt that in the last twenty years Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie has been one of the mostif not the roostoriginal, versatile, and imaginative historians in the world.... He has acquired an almost unique capacity to capture the imagination of a mass audience, while still retaining the respect and admiration of his professional colleagues." Lawrence Stone, New York Review of Books "Many years ago, Le Roy Ladurie described himself as an 'agricultural historian.' .... But what a rural historian! He seems most often a retrospective cultural anthropologist-cum-demographer, for he seeks out or notices large areas of social or cultural data and brings to it a powerful, intensely imaginative analysis. He is willing to push his data or illuminate his findings with speculation about their meaning and thus makes for provocative and interesting reading even for those who might consider themselves devotees of an older style history that offered a straightforward narrative of political or military events.... Ladurie is one of those unusual scholars who, even as he fulfills the typical expectations of his calling, is also transforming it with his own vision of what it might

Author

Ladurie Emmanuel Le Roy

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press

Published

1984

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226473260

Subjects

History, Humanities