The Land and the Loom: Peasants and Profit in Northern France, 1680-1800

by Liana Vardi

In the modern imagination the peasant survives as a creature of the land, suspicious of the outside world and resistant to change, either the repository of pristine innocence and virtue or the manifestation of everything nasty, brutish, and at best dull. The Land and the Loom replaces this picture with a richly textured, deeply researched portrait of the peasant's life and world in northern France in the early modern period. Drawing on evidence culled...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822312840
• ISBN13: 9780822312840
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.