Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Who Looked at History From the Bottom Up, Dies at 94

Emmanuel Leroy Ladurie in his office in Paris in 2009. He was a leading member of the Annales movement, which focused less on rulers than on the ruled. He led a movement that rejected historiography’s traditional emphasis on great events and leaders in favor of mining the “mental universe” of…

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