The Origins of English Individualism by Alan Macfarlane

The Origins of English Individualism by Alan Macfarlane

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Summary

This book should stimulate work and thought rather than impose a new orthodoxy. Its combination of iconoclasm with questioning gives it an interest that is relatively rare in recent English historiography.

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The Origins of English Individualism by Alan Macfarlane

The Origins of English Individualism is about the nature of English society during the five centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, and the crucial differences between England and other European nations. Drawing upon detailed studies of English parishes and a growing number of other intensive local studies, as well as diaries, legal treatises and contemporary foreign sources, the author examines the framework of change in England. He suggests that there has been a basic misrepresentation of English history and that this has considerable implications both for our understanding of modern British and American society, and for current theories concerning the preconditions of industrialization.
Alan Macfarlane is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of King's College.

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ISBN 13 9780631127611
ISBN 10 0631127615
Title The Origins of English Individualism
Author Alan Macfarlane
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published 1979-11-14
Number of pages 232
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