Liana Vardi: 1 book
The Land and the Loom
Peasants and Profit in Northern France, 1680–1800
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
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...
