Emmanuel Todd
Author
Publisher
Polity
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on 7 January 2015, millions took to the streets to demonstrate their revulsion, expressing a desire to reaffirm the ideals of the French Republic: 'liberté, égalité, fraternité.' But who were the millions of demonstrators who were suddenly united under the single cry of 'Je suis Charlie'? In this probing new book, Emmanuel Todd investigates the cartography and sociology of the...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Argues against the idea of a specific Islamic demography, and examines the spread of massive secularization throughout the Arab and Muslim world, suggesting that the evolution of Islam is not significantly different from the history of Christianity.