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

Macfarlane, Alan

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9780631193104: The Origins of English Individualism: The Family Property and Social Transition
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ISBN 10: 0631193103 ISBN 13: 9780631193104
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1991

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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

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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.

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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.

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Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Publication date
1991
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0631193103
ISBN 13 
9780631193104
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
232
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