Episode Synopsis "The Invention of the Modern World (the origins of modernity)"

A talk given about the book of that title by Alan Macfarlane, filmed in May 2015

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More 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)