The Making of the Modern World: Encounters - Couverture souple

Macfarlane, Prof Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1490396004 ISBN 13 : 9781490396002

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

The question of how the modern world, composed of new technologies, new political and social systems, new ideologies and new relations between economy, politics, society and thought, has emerged against all the odds is the largest one that is asked by historians and social scientists. I have been wrestling with this puzzle for half a life-time and written a number of books about it. One part of the quest has been to interrogate major thinkers who have addressed the same question over the last 300 years and I have already published studies of Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, De Tocqueville, Fukuzawa and Maitland. In the encounters or shorter essays in this volume I look at the life and works of the following: David Hume, Henry Maine, Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Norman Jacobs, Ernest Gellner, Andre Beteille, Louis Dumont, tony Wrigley, Ben Pomeranz, Susan Hanley and Keith Thomas for further clues.

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Alan Macfarlane was born in Shillong, India, in 1941 and educated at the Dragon School, Sedbergh School, Oxford and London Universities. He is the author of over twenty books, including The Origins of English Individualism (1978) and Letters to Lily: On How the World Works (2005). He has worked in England, Nepal, Japan and China as both an historian and anthropologist. He was elected to the British Academy in 1986 and is now Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a Life Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1490396004
• ISBN 13: 9781490396002
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
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