The Peasants of Languedoc

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University of Illinois Press, 1976 - 370 strán (strany)
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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Obsah

The LowWater Mark of a Society
11
Population Subsistence Income The Scissors of the Sixteenth Century
51
II TOWARDS AUSTERITY
73
Land Subdivision Land Concentration Pauperization
84
Wages Rents Profits The Impoverishment of the Rural Wageworker
98
II THE PERSISTENT STAGNATION OF REAL RENT
114
III THE TRIUMPH OF PROFIT
119
General Perspectives
132
The Rent Offensive
211
Prices and Chronology
219
The Vicissitudes of the Gross Product
223
The New Demographic Depression
239
From Land Subdivision to Land Concentration
246
The Land Is No Longer Profitable
251
The Savage Rebellions
265
Conclusion
287

New States of Consciousness and Social Struggles
147
The Paths of Scripture
149
The Huguenot Offensive and the Lands of the Priests
172
The Tithe Reform or Revolution?
181
Struggle and Action of the Lower Classes
191
Witches Sabbaths and Revolts
203
A Great Agrarian Cycle
289
Tables and Graphs
313
Principal Manuscript Sources
323
Bibliography
335
Index
365
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