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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Todd, Emmanuel, 1951- author.

Contributor:

Brown, Andrew (Literary translator), translator.

Bernard W. Freeman Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

Où en sommes-nous? English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Social aspects.

Democracy.

Civilization--History.

Civilization.

History.

Ethnohistory.

Families.

Social structure.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xx, 427 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2019]

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Contents:

1 The Differentiation of Family Systems: Eurasia p. 33

2 The Differentiation of Family Systems: Indian America and Africa p. 44

3 Homo Sapiens p. 63

4 Judaism and Early Christianity: Family and Literacy p. 78

5 Germany, Protestantism and Universal Literacy p. 100

6 The Great European Mental Transformation p. 115

7 Educational Take-off and Economic Development p. 131

8 Secularization and the Crisis of Transition p. 139

9 The English Matrix of Globalization p. 153

10 Homo Americanus p. 174

11 Democracy Is Always Primitive p. 189

12 Democracy Undermined by Higher Education p. 204

13 A Crisis in Black and White p. 224

14 Donald Trump as Will and Representation p. 241

15 The Memory of Places p. 262

16 Stem-Family Societies: Germany and Japan p. 275

17 The Metamorphosis of Europe p. 301

18 Communitarian Societies: Russia and China p. 326.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Bernard W. Freeman Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Todd, Emmanuel, 1951- author. Lineages of modernity

ISBN:

9781509534470

1509534474

OCLC:

1055567878