{"product_id":"the-origins-of-english-individualism-isbn-9780631193104","title":"The Origins of English Individualism","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Origins of English Individualism\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003eApologies and acknowledgements viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations and conventions x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of abbreviated titles xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The nature of a peasant society 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 When England ceased to be a peasant society: Marx, Weber and the historians 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 English economy and society in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Ownership in England from 1350 to 1750 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Ownership in England from 1200 to 1349 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 English economy and society in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 England in perspective 165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Some implications 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostscript 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of manuscript sources 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 210\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Historians are said to be moving back towards the idea of an enduring national identity. Alan Macfarlane wrote a paradigm-busting book back in the late 1970s, \u003ci\u003eThe Origins of English Individualism\u003c\/i\u003e. That must have taken courage considering the sort of a decade it was ... A brilliant analysis.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eAlan Macfarlane\u003c\/b\u003e is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of King's College. \u003ci\u003eThe Origins of English Individualism\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990305849573,"sku":"NP9780631193104","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631193104.jpg?v=1761787283","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-origins-of-english-individualism-isbn-9780631193104","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}