Les inflexions recentes de l´Histoire economique et sociale des campagnes françaises a l´epoque moderne

Abstract

The French rural history of the early modern period has seen a glorious period in the years 1950 to 1980. We then spoke about the crisis of rural history in the context of the crisis of quantitative history. This article provides a historiographic overview of the revival of rural history in France for fifteen years. Historians renewed their methods. Without abandoning the extent of the phenomena, they chose a middle path between micro and macro history. Recent studies have changed our view of the countryside in the early modern period. Less focused on describing the economic structures of the countryside, rural historians are more responsive to changes, developments, integration of farmers into the markets, interrelations between cities and countrysides, the family life cycle farm etc. If french historians are fewer to work about it, the French Rural History was repeated and widely internationalized over the past fifteen years.