English Individualism Revisited
Alan Ryan, 21 January 1988
The Culture of Capitalism
by Alan Macfarlane.
Blackwell, 254 pp., £19.50, August 1987,0 631 13626 6 Show More
by Alan Macfarlane.
Blackwell, 254 pp., £19.50, August 1987,
“... Alan Macfarlane’s little book on The Origins of English Individualism came out in 1978. It argued that England had been in crucial respects a ‘modern’ society ever since the 14th century and maybe earlier, and that most accounts of the transition to modernity were therefore misconceived, and in so doing it attacked just about every vested interest in contemporary historiography ... ”