The Origins of English Individualism: The Family Property and Social Transition - Softcover

MacFarlane, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631127615 ISBN 13: 9780631127611

Publisher: Blackwell Pub, 1988

Synopsis

`Will stimulate work and thought rather than impose a new orthodoxy. The combination of bold iconoclasm with judicious questioning gives the book an excitement unparalleled in recent English historiography. It is an extraordinarily invigorating blast of fresh air.' History.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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 misinterpretation 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.

About the Author:

Alan Macfarlane is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of King's College.

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackwell Pub
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0631127615
• ISBN 13: 9780631127611
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216