In this The
Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution book, Francis Fukuyama attempts to understand how humans moved from tribal and familial
connections to organized institutions of states and governments. He writes,
"In the developed world, we take the existence of government so much for
granted that we sometimes forget how difficult it was to create."
The Origins of
Political Order is a broad, sweeping analysis of human development from
pre-human times to the French Revolution. The book ends with the 18th century;
a second volume will bring the story to the present day. Indeed, Fukuyama notes
in the Preface, "It is extremely important to read this volume in
anticipation of what is to come in the second. As I make clear in the final
chapter of this book, political development in the modern world occurs under
substantially different conditions from those in the period up until the late
eighteenth century."
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.
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608 pages | Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Reprint edition
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