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Lineages of Modernity - A History of Humanity from the Stone Age to Homo Americanus (Hardcover)
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Lineages of Modernity - A History of Humanity from the Stone Age to Homo Americanus (Hardcover)
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In 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. In 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 Homo americanus 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.
This 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.
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