Alan Macfarlane
Alan Donald James Macfarlane is a British anthropologist and historian, and a Professor Emeritus of King's College, Cambridge. He is the author or editor of 20 books and numerous articles on the anthropology and history of England, Nepal, Japan and China. He has focused on comparative study of the origins and nature of the modern world. In recent years he has become increasingly interested in the use of visual material in teaching and research. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society.
Books
Creative Lives and Works
2021
ISBN 9781000378252
Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England
2002
ISBN 9781134644667
Green Gold
2011
ISBN 9781448116201
Learning to Be Modern
2017
ISBN 9781546740117
The Savage Wars of Peace
1997
ISBN 9780631181170
The Riddle of the Modern World
2000
ISBN 9780333792704
The Making of the Modern World
2002
ISBN 9780333964460
Glass
2002
ISBN 9780226500287
Reconstructing Historical Communities
2008
ISBN 9780521088138
Reflections on Cambridge
2009
ISBN 9788187358503
The Empire of Tea
2009
ISBN 9781468306019
Japan Through the Looking Glass
2010
ISBN 9781847650580
Letters To Lily
2010
ISBN 9781847650887
The Glass Bathyscaphe
2011
ISBN 9781847651013
Alexis De Toqueville and the Making of the Modern World
2013
ISBN 9781484865378
Thomas Malthus and the Making of the Modern World
2013
ISBN 9781490381855
Yukichi Fukuzawa and the Making of the Modern World
2013
ISBN 9781490381725
Montesquieu and the Making of the Modern World
2013
ISBN 9781490498973
The Invention of the Modern World
2014
ISBN 9780615919638
Cambridge Anthropology
2015
ISBN 9781782389958
On How to Investigate Mysteries
2016
ISBN 9781532737596
How to Discover the World
2016
ISBN 9781540867902
F. W. Maitland and the Making of the Modern World
2018
ISBN 9781986028790
A Modern Education, Advice for Ariston
2018
ISBN 9781912603176