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Origins of English Individualism

The Family Property and Social Transition

Alan Macfarlane author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:14th Nov '79

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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.

ISBN: 9780631127611

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232 pages