Emmanuel Todd

Lineages of Modernity

A History of Humanity from the Stone Age to Homo Americanus

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in French as "Oâau en sommes-nous? Une esquisse de l'histoire humaine" by ãaEditions du Seuil, 2017.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Polity Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781509570119
• ISBN-10: 150957011X
• Artikelnr.: 73490248

Autorenporträt

Emmanuel Todd is a sociologist, demographer and historical anthropologist at the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED), Paris. He was one of the first scholars to predict the collapse of the Soviet Union and is the author of many bestselling books, including After the Empire and Who Is Charlie?

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the English edition
Introduction. The differentiation of family structures and the inverse
model of history
Chapter One. The differentiation of family systems: Eurasia
Chapter Two. The differentiation of family systems: Indian America and
Africa
Chapter Three. Homo sapiens
Chapter Four. Judaism and early Christianity: family and literacy
Chapter Five. Germany, Protestantism and universal literacy
Chapter Seven. Educational take-off and economic development
Chapter Eight. Secularization and the crisis of transition
Chapter Nine. The English matrix of globalization
Chapter Ten. Homo americanus
Chapter Eleven. Democracy is always primitive
Chapter Twelve. Democracy undermined by higher education
Chapter Thirteen. A crisis in Black and White
Chapter Fourteen: Donald Trump as will and representation
Chapter Fifteen. The memory of places
Chapter Sixteen. Stem family societies: Germany and Japan Chapter
Seventeen. The metamorphosis of Europe
Chapter Eighteen. Communitarian societies: Russia and China
Envoi
Post-script: the future of liberal democracy
Notes
Index