Books by Alan MacFarlane

Born in India in 1941, Alan Macfarlane was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and Sedbergh School, Yorkshire. He received his M.A. and D.Phil. in history from Oxford, an M.Phil. in anthropology at the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies. He was elected a Research Fellow in History at King's College, Cambridge in 1971 and a Lecturer in Social Anthropology in 1975, a Reader in 1981 and Professor of Anthropological Science in 1991. He was elected to the British Academy in 1986. He is currently Emeritus Professor at Cambridge and a Life Fellow of King's College. Alan Macfarlane has given the Frazer, Malinowski and Marrett Lectures in Britain, the Silver Jubilee Guest Lecture at the Delhi School of Economics, the Sir Li Ka-Sheng distinguished lectures in China, the Maruyama Lectures at Berkeley and the Wang Guowei lectures at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He has done historical and anthropological work in England, Nagaland, Nepal, Japan and China. Among Alan Macfarlane's books are: Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England (1970); Origins of English Individualism (1978); Marriage and Love in England (1986); The Culture of Capitalism (1987); The Savage Wars of Peace - England, Japan and the Malthusian Trap (1997); The Riddle of the Modern World (2000); The Making of the Modern World (2002); Glass - A World History (2002, with Gerry Martin); Green Gold - The Empire of Tea (2003, with Iris Macfarlane); Letters to Lily (2005), and Japan Through the Looking Glass (2007), Reflections on Cambridge (2009).