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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

by: Francis Fukuyama

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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780374227340
Edition: 1St Edition
ISBN: 0374227349
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 608
Publication Date: April 12, 2011
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could keep the peace and uniform laws that applied to all citizens. Some went on to create governments that were accountable to their constituents. We take these institutions for granted, but they are absent or are unable to perform in many of today’s developing countries—with often disastrous consequences for the rest of the world.

Francis Fukuyama, author of the bestselling The End of History and the Last Man and one of our most important political thinkers, provides a sweeping account of how today’s basic political institutions developed. The first of a major two-volume work, The Origins of Political Order begins with politics among our primate ancestors and follows the story through the emergence of tribal societies, the growth of the first modern state in China, the beginning of the rule of law in India and the Middle East, and the development of political accountability in Europe up until the eve of the French Revolution.

Drawing on a vast body of knowledge—history, evolutionary biology, archaeology, and economics—Fukuyama has produced a brilliant, provocative work that offers fresh insights on the origins of democratic societies and raises essential questions about the nature of politics and its discontents.

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