Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie was a historian that followed the Annales. He is most known for his idea on the "total history."Ladurie would look at every aspect of every data that he could possibly get his hands on. What he did with this data was the most important part of why he was a great historian. This man would take into consideration the weather when speaking about why peasants lived the way that they did, my guess was to explain the rate of crop growth in that year, but either way this is the first time I'm hearing of someone using weather to explain why something happened in history in a detailed form besides the potato famine.
What are some new ways technology can allow us to compile data as Ladurie did?
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