This book, first published in 1976, utilises the tools of social anthropology and population stud...

The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus was born in 1766 and died in 1834. He was the son of a clergym...

Alan Macfarlane writes:Yukichi Fukuzawa (1835-1901) is arguably the greatest Japanese social th...

Alan Macfarlane writes of F. W. Maitland:When we consider that some five thousand pages of deta...

An accessible practical introduction to epidemiology in medical research.

A global trend towards sustainable industry has highlighted a need to source energy and chemicals...

Following on in the footsteps of its acclaimed and popular predecessor, this new edition builds o...

Alan MacFarlane has studied the parishes of Earls Colne in Essex and Kirkby Lonsdale in Cumbria.

This book describes the nature of English historical records over the period 1200 1800.

This is a classic regional and comparative study of early modern witchcraft. The history of witch...

Ralph Josselin, vicar of Earls Colne in Essex from 1641 to his death in 1683, kept for almost for...

Science and Culture: Lisa Jardine, Jean Michel Massing and Simon Schaffer is a collection of inte...