{"product_id":"lineages-of-modernity-a-history-of-humanity-from-the-stone-age-to-homo-americanus-hardback-9781509534470","title":"Lineages of Modernity; A History of Humanity from the Stone Age to Homo Americanus (Hardback) 9781509534470","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLineages of Modernity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA History of Humanity from the Stone Age to Homo Americanus\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEmmanuel Todd (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509534470, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 May 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e370 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.5 x 4.1 cm, 0.794 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"To the study of the United States, the Soviet Union and France, Emmanuel Todd has brought a unique combination of empirical rigour and humanist insight. Now, in \u003ci\u003eLineages of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e, this great thinker has found his greatest subject.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Lind, author of \u003ci\u003eLand of Promise: An Economic History of the United States\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Emmanuel Todd provides intellectual nourishment of the first order. His family-based, anthropological-historical account uncovers another part of the hidden wiring of human development and provides a welcome antidote to the relentless economism of so much contemporary analysis. And for those of us unfamiliar with the Todd perspective, he writes with clarity and erudition, marshalling a huge amount of evidence to provide a fresh but undogmatic perspective on the modern world, usually with half an eye on the ancient one.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Goodhart, member of the Policy Exchange think-tank and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Road to Somewhere: The New Tribes Shaping British Politics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Emmanuel Todd is an internationally known scholar whose work on the development and influence of family systems around the world has challenged many preconceptions. This is a bold, iconoclastic, wide-ranging study, marshalling a great deal of material from history, anthropology, demography and other disciplines. It is written from an unusual angle and rightly challenges the primacy of economic forces, emphasizing instead the role of family systems, ideology, education and culture in the shaping of human history. There is much to learn from this work.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlan Macfarlane, Life Fellow, King’s College, Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Vast and mind-expanding\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"[Todd] Uncovers the hidden wiring of modernity using his own special historical-anthropological method — which predicted both the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of Donald Trump.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I would unreservedly endorse it to anybody\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames C. Bennett, \u003ci\u003eQuadrant\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"You really feel he might be on to something\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarginal Revolution\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A sweeping reconception of both global history and our moment of political crisis.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeff Rich, \u003ci\u003eThe Burning Archive\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn most developed countries there is a palpable sense of confusion about the contemporary state of the world. Much that was taken for granted a decade or two ago is being questioned, and there is a widespread urge to try and understand how we reached our present situation, and where we are heading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this major new book, the leading sociologist, historical anthropologist and demographer Emmanuel Todd sheds fresh light on our current predicament by reconstructing the historical dynamics of human societies from the Stone Age to the present. Eschewing the tendency to attribute special causal significance to the economy, Todd develops an anthropological account of history, focusing on the long-term dynamics of family systems and their links to religion and ideology – what he sees as the slow-moving, unconscious level of society, in contrast to the conscious level of the economy and politics. He also analyses the dramatic changes brought about by the spread of education. This enables him to explain the different historical trajectories of the advanced nations and the growing divergence between them, a divergence that can be observed in such phenomena as the rise of the Anglosphere in the modern period, the paradox of a \u003ci\u003eHomo americanus\u003c\/i\u003e who is both innovative and archaic, the startling electoral success of Donald Trump, the lack of realism in the will to power shown by Germany and China, the emergence of stable authoritarian democracy in Russia, the new introversion of Japan and the recent turbulent developments in Europe, including Brexit.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis magisterial account of human history brings into sharp focus the massive transformations taking place in the world today and shows that these transformations have less to do with the supposedly homogenizing effects of globalization and the various reactions to it than with an ethnic diversity that is deeply rooted in the long history of human evolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface to the English edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. The differentiation of family structures and the inverse model of history\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter One. The differentiation of family systems: Eurasia\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two. The differentiation of family systems: Indian America and Africa\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three. Homo sapiens\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four. Judaism and early Christianity: family and literacy\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five. Germany, Protestantism and universal literacy\u003cbr\u003eChapter Seven. Educational take-off and economic development\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eight. Secularization and the crisis of transition\u003cbr\u003eChapter Nine. The English matrix of globalization\u003cbr\u003eChapter Ten. Homo americanus\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eleven. Democracy is always primitive\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twelve. Democracy undermined by higher education\u003cbr\u003eChapter Thirteen. A crisis in Black and White\u003cbr\u003eChapter Fourteen: Donald Trump as will and representation\u003cbr\u003eChapter Fifteen. The memory of places\u003cbr\u003eChapter Sixteen. Stem family societies: Germany and Japan Chapter Seventeen. The metamorphosis of Europe\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eighteen. Communitarian societies: Russia and China\u003cbr\u003eEnvoi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePost-script: the future of liberal democracy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52462947729688,"sku":"9781509534470","price":45.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509534470.jpg?v=1785543446","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/lineages-of-modernity-a-history-of-humanity-from-the-stone-age-to-homo-americanus-hardback-9781509534470","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}