The Origins of English Individualism: The Family Property and Social Transition
Book Details
Author(s)
Alan Macfarlane
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN
0631193103
ISBN-13
9780631193104
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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 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.
