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Origins of English Individualism: Family, Property and Social Transition
 
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Origins of English Individualism: Family, Property and Social Transition (Hardcover)

by Alan Macfarlane (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 232 pages
  • Publisher: WileyBlackwell (29 Nov 1978)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0631193103
  • ISBN-13: 978-0631193104
  • Product Dimensions: 23.7 x 16.2 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 834,540 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"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, The Origins of English Individualism. That must have taken courage considering the sort of a decade it was ... A brilliant analysis."
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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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3.0 out of 5 stars An iconclastic classic, 13 Aug 2007
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I based my doctoral research in history on testing a number of the assumptions made in this book. Macfarlane's argument is essentially to take a number of observations about peasant societies throughout the world and compare them to English history. His highly controversial conclusion was that England had not had a peasant social structure from at least the thirteenth century onwards. However, Macfarlane bases his England wide observations on in depth knowledge of only two comunities, that of Earls Colne in Essex and Kirkby Lonsdale in Cumbria. Suffice to say, this is a pretty small sample. Differing manorial structures and demographic profiles mean that developments in other parts of England did not necessarily follow this pattern. Still, it remains highly readable and very bold in its conclusions and is worth a look
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