Table of Contents

Preface Introduction by Robert L. Carneiro An Ethnography of England in the Year 1685 by Thomas Babington Macaulay Index

About the Author

Robert L. Carneiro is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. Thomas Babington Macaulay was a prominent nineteenth-century British historian and politician.

Reviews

Praise from readers . . . "A forceful witness for the defense, Robert Carneiro pushes us to revisit this Victorian giant who exercised such a profound influence on the historical imagination of his own generation and those that followed." -- Richard Aldous, Eugene Meyer Professor of British History and Literature, Bard College "Thomas Babington Macaulay joins the ranks of anthropology's ancestors as Robert Carneiro showcases his ethnography of England in the year 1685. Macaulay established an ethnographic genre of social and cultural history, highlighting questions of evolution and progress that remain salient for contemporary anthropology. Carneiro's framing essay is a masterpiece of contextualization for the history of anthropology." -- Regna Darnell, Distinguished University Professor, University of Western Ontario "Occasionally one finds a nugget. Robert Carneiro has found one in the third chapter of Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of England, the first genuine historical ethnography and the precursor of a whole new genre of historical writing. The result is a fascinating picture of everyday life in English society from top to bottom." -- Stephen K. Sanderson, Visiting Scholar, University of California, Riverside "[The third chapter] is still well worth reading today, as the anthropologist Robert Carneiro suggests in his enthusiastic introduction... not only for its lively style but also for the author's vivid imagination, a quality as necessary to anthropologists as it is to historians." --Peter Burke, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (NS), 2016