Marriage and Civilization
How Monogamy Made Us Human
Published on 20. February 2014
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-62157-201-5 (ISBN)
Description
Marriage built civilization. Will its collapse lead to our downfall?
In Marriage and Civilization, Tucker takes readers on a journey through the history of the human race to demonstrate how a pattern of life-long, monogamous pairings has enabled humans to build modern civilization. Drawing extensively on biological, anthropological, and historical evidence, Tucker makes the case that marriage is not only a desirable institution for societies, it's actually the bedrock of civilization.
Tucker also examines America (and the world)'s current marriage crisis, and the factors that have led to the decline of marriage, the dramatic rise of divorce, and the epidemic of single parenthood. He draws bold predictions about what could happen to American society of marriage collapses entirely, and he sketches out the threat from polygamous groups such as fundamental Muslim sects. Polygamy, Tucker argues, not only generates discontent and disorder within a society, but promotes violence against others. Monogamous marriage is vital not only to our domestic well-being, but our survival in the face of violent enemies.
In Marriage and Civilization, Tucker takes readers on a journey through the history of the human race to demonstrate how a pattern of life-long, monogamous pairings has enabled humans to build modern civilization. Drawing extensively on biological, anthropological, and historical evidence, Tucker makes the case that marriage is not only a desirable institution for societies, it's actually the bedrock of civilization.
Tucker also examines America (and the world)'s current marriage crisis, and the factors that have led to the decline of marriage, the dramatic rise of divorce, and the epidemic of single parenthood. He draws bold predictions about what could happen to American society of marriage collapses entirely, and he sketches out the threat from polygamous groups such as fundamental Muslim sects. Polygamy, Tucker argues, not only generates discontent and disorder within a society, but promotes violence against others. Monogamous marriage is vital not only to our domestic well-being, but our survival in the face of violent enemies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Washington DC
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
504 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62157-201-5 (9781621572015)
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02/2014
Regnery Publishing
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Person
William Tucker is a veteran journalist whose work has appeared in Harper's, The Atlantic, The American Spectator, National Review, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, Reader's Digest, Commentary, Life, Reason, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and other publications, and has been a regular columnist for the New York Post, the New York Press, and the New York Sun. He is the author of several books, including The Excluded Americans (winner of the Mencken Award) and two off-Broadway plays, including Freedom Summer about Mississippi in the summer of 1964. He lives in Stony Point, New York, with his wife, author Stephanie Gutmann.