Set of short talks about the central themes of various published books written by Alan Macfarlane, given to camera in May 2015.

Latest episodes of the podcast The themes of various books - Alan Macfarlane

• Green Gold: The Empire of Tea (The origins of the industrial revolution)
• The Glass Bathyscaphe (the origins of science)
• The Invention of the Modern World (the origins of modernity)
• The Making of the Modern World (The origins of democracy)
• The Origins of English Individualism (The origins of capitalism)