This book is concerned with the origins of capitalism, the conditions that accompanied its birth, and the needs that it nurtures and satisfies. It is the essence of the author's argument that capitalism is more than an economic system: it is a culture that affects not just the material but also the social, familial and even spiritual bases of existence. As both an historian and an anthropologist, Dr Macfarlane is able to explore capitalist society from a number of original perspectives. He considers, for example, the nature of evil, attitudes towards love and the family, the phenomenon of violence, population change and revolution, and how we have come both to dominate and to revere the natural world. Alan Macfarlane's investigations of these subjects lead him towards the answers to two tantalizing and crucial questions: where did capitalism come from and why?
- ISBN10 0631136266
- ISBN13 9780631136262
- Publish Date 27 August 1987
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 April 1995
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Blackwell Publishers
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English