Modern World (2001) are contributions to the field of history of ideas, addressing the work of Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Alexis de Tocqueville, Ernest Gellner, Yukichi Fukuzawa and Frederic Maitland. Another strand in his work addresses the role of particular inventions in transforming history. The Glass Bathyscaphe: How Glass Changed the World (2002), co-authored with Gerry Martin, discusses how the invention and use of glass facilitated European dominion overseas. Macfarlane and his mother Iris co-wrote Green Gold: The Empire of Tea (2003), presenting the thesis that tea contributed to English prosperity, preventing epidemics by requiring the boiling of water and by promoting antibiotic effects. 2005's Letters to Lily distils Macfarlane's reflections on a life of research, as addressed to his granddaughter Lily Bee. As a non-academic work it brought Macfarlane to the attention of a wider, non-scholarly audience. Macfarlane's work has been widely read and cited by his contemporaries. Critics have challenged the role he ascribes to English institutions in the establishment of modernity, and his moral relativism as a champion of modernity who nonetheless affirms the validity of non-Western institutions. Together with Mark Turin, Macfarlane established the Digital Himalaya Project in December 2000 and now serves as Chairman of the executive board of the World Oral Literature Project. He is also a co-editor of The Fortnightly Review's "new series" online. Publications Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England: A Regional and Comparative Study, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Abingdon-on-Thames, 1970, 334 p. (second edition, Routledge, 1999, 380 p.) The Family Life of Ralph Josselin: A Seventeenth Century Clergyman - An Essay in Historical Anthropology, Cambridge University Press, 1970, 241 p. Resources and Population: A Study of the Gurungs of Nepal, Cambridge University Press, 1976, 382 p. Reconstructing Historical Communities in collaboration with Sarah Harrison and Charles Jardine, Cambridge University Press, 1977, 222 p. The Origins of English Individualism: The Family, Property and Social Transition, Blackwell, Oxford, 1978, 236 p. (translated in Portuguese, Japanese, Hungarian, and Chinese) The Justice and the Mare's Ale: Law and Disorder in Seventeenth-century England with Sarah Harrison, Blackwell, Oxford 1981, 238 p. A Guide to English Historical Records, Cambridge University Press, 1983, 134 p. Marriage and Love in England: Modes of Reproduction 1300-1840, Blackwell, Oxford, 1986, 320 p. The Culture of Capitalism, Blackwell, Oxford, 1987, 272 p. (translated in Portuguese, Japanese, Spanish, and Turkish) The Diary of Ralph Josselin: 1616-1683, Oxford University Press, 1991, 752 p. Gurungs of