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| The Origins of English Individualism
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| The Making of the Modern World
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| The Empire of Tea, with Iris Macfarlane
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 | James C. Bennett, email 2Feb09, wrote:
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| Macfarlane in Riddle of the Modern World makes the point that the
intellectual progression from Montesquieu -> Smith -> Tocqueville ->
Maitland was fundamentally on the right track; Marx created a huge
diversion not only in economics but even more impotant in anthropology
and history. One upshot of this was that the American founders,being
steeped in Montesquieu and in some cases familiar with Smith, were
building on a far sounder foundation than many who came afterwards.
The other is that we really must go back to these roots and re-create
the path forward from that branching.
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| Alan Macfarlane's websites
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| Alan Macfarlane's ebooks for free download:
http://alanmacfarlane.com/FILES/ebooks.html
• Yukichi Fukuzawa and the Making of the Modern World (Published originally in 'Making of the Modern World', Palgrave 2002)
• F.W. Maitland and the Making of the Modern World (Published originally in 'Making of the Modern World', Palgrave 2002)
• Baron de Montesquieu and the Making of the Modern World (Published originally in 'Riddle of the Modern World', Macmillan 2000)
• Adam Smith and the Making of the Modern World (Published originally in 'Riddle of the Modern World', Macmillan 2000)
• Alexis de Tocqueville and the Making of the Modern World (Published originally in 'Riddle of the Modern World', Macmillan 2000)
• Thomas Malthus and the Making of the Modern World (Ebook only)
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| Reflections on Cambridge University and King's College — Around thirty short interviews given by Professor Alan Macfarlane as he walks round Cambridge City and University. He covers topics such as libraries, museums, the nature of fellowship, scientific discovery, music, food, teaching, examinations and many aspects of life in Cambridge and the University and Colleges. It is based on 35 years of teaching in the Colleges and University. — https://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/183650
7/6/09 7:25 AM
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| Alan Macfarlane — the making & riddle of the modern world & other contents of Alan Macfarlane's website
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| glyph 180: author, scholar, sociologist ... the making of the modern world . the riddle of the modern world ... work of Yukichi Fukuzawa, F.W. Maitland, Baron de Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Alexis de Tocqueville, Thomas Malthus ... how the modern world in which individuals can matter more than groups came into being and how such a world can work ... important for those who intend to strengthen such civilization because it is good for explorers (freeorder)
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| The Historical Origins of Post-Individuation Community: James C. Bennett, on Macfarlane — the antiquity of Anglospheric individualism
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| glyph 438: Alan Macfarlane, James C. Bennett . Anglosphere . F.W. Maitland . history of England ... sociology, community, individuality, social structure ... books
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