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Immobile History: An Interview with Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

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The author spoke with renowned French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie about Computers, Geography and History. Le Roy Ladurie was the “standard bearer” of the third generation of the French Annales school, a group of French intellectuals that combined different disciplines such as history, geography, anthropology, and more to delve into social history.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Cf. Le Roy Ladurie (1974).

  2. 2.

    See Burke (1990) for more information about the Annales.

  3. 3.

    Published in French in 1973, in English in 1979 (Le Roy Ladurie, 1979).

  4. 4.

    Another issue was in the way the data was formatted, which contributed to making the situation worse. The data has recently been transformed into spreadsheet files and is available from http://acrh.revues.org/index2890.html (last access: 14 November 2011, page is in French) for download.

  5. 5.

    English version: Le Roy Ladurie (1980b).

  6. 6.

    This is an edited version of the original transcript. Interview held in English. See the entry for Le Roy Ladurie in Cannon et al. (1988) and Hughes-Warrington (2000) for the biographical details.

  7. 7.

    See Aron et al. (1972).

  8. 8.

    Cf. Duvernoy (1966).

  9. 9.

    Cf. Duvernoy (1977–1978).

  10. 10.

    Cf. Dugrand (1963).

  11. 11.

    Cf. Le Roy Ladurie (1980a).

  12. 12.

    See Braudel (1966) for the French 2nd edition, or Braudel (1972) and Braudel (1973) for the English translations. This book by Braudel is a milestone in spatial history (among other things).

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von Lünen, A., Ladurie, E.L.R. (2013). Immobile History: An Interview with Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie. In: von Lünen, A., Travis, C. (eds) History and GIS. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5009-8_2

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