Liana VardiLiana Vardi is Professor of History at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Vardi specializes in French history and the eighteenth century. She is the author of The Land and the Loom: Peasants and Profit in Northern France, 1680-1800 (1993). She contribued to a volume titled Agrarian Studies: Synthetic Work at the Cutting Edge (2001). Read More Read Less