Lineages of modernity : a history of humanity from the Stone Age to Homo Americanus / Emmanuel Todd ; translated by Andrew Brown

Author:: Todd, Emmanuel, 1951-
Uniform Title:: Où en sommes-nous? English
Published:: Cambridge : Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2019]
Physical Description:: xx, 427 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Additional Creators:: Brown, Andrew (Literary translator)

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Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.The Differentiation of Family Systems: Eurasia -- 2.The Differentiation of Family Systems: Indian America and Africa -- 3.Homo Sapiens -- 4.Judaism and Early Christianity: Family and Literacy -- 5.Germany, Protestantism and Universal Literacy -- 6.The Great European Mental Transformation -- 7.Educational Take-off and Economic Development -- 8.Secularization and the Crisis of Transition -- 9.The English Matrix of Globalization -- 10.Homo Americanus -- 11.Democracy Is Always Primitive -- 12.Democracy Undermined by Higher Education -- 13.A Crisis in Black and White -- 14.Donald Trump as Will and Representation -- 15.The Memory of Places -- 16.Stem-Family Societies: Germany and Japan -- 17.The Metamorphosis of Europe -- 18.Communitarian Societies: Russia and China.

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History

ISBN:

9781509534470 hardback
1509534474 hardback

Note:

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

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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