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

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

An accessible practical introduction to epidemiology in medical research.

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

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

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

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

A global trend towards sustainable industry hashighlighted a need to source energy andchemica...

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

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

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

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