After the Empire
Emmanuel Todd
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Description for After the Empire
Paperback. The American Empire is in crisis - and its death throes threaten to engulf us all Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 165 x 203 x 18. Weight in Grams: 316.
In 1975, Emmanuel Todd predicted the decline and fall of the Soviet Union, drawing on research from cultural anthropology and demography as well as economics. At the time his findings challenged a conventional wisdom that saw in the Communist world a dynamic and growing challenge to the West. Generations of Kremlinologists may not have known much, but they knew that Todd was wrong - until 1989, that is, when conventional wisdom retired hurt.
Now Todd returns to the debate on the future of international power relations with another startling prediction. Far from being at the apogee of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Constable and Robinson United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845290580
SKU
V9781845290580
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99-2
About Emmanuel Todd
Emmanuel Todd is currently a researcher at the French National Institute for Demographic Studies. He is the author of numerous books, including The Final Fall: An Essay on the Decomposition of the Soviet Sphere, The Making of Modern France: Ideology, Politics and Culture and The Explanation of Ideology.
Reviews for After the Empire
A powerful antidote to hysterical exaggeration of American power and potential by American triumphalists and anti-American polemicists alike.
Michael Lind, author of Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Takeover of American Politics
I would recommend this extraordinary book to everyone troubled by US neo-imperialism . . . this is a brave and challenging book which contains ... Read more
Michael Lind, author of Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Takeover of American Politics
I would recommend this extraordinary book to everyone troubled by US neo-imperialism . . . this is a brave and challenging book which contains ... Read more