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082 _a320 FUK
100 _aFukuyama, Francis
245 0 _aOrigins of political order: from prehuman times to the french revolution
260 _aLondon
260 _bProfile Books
260 _c2011
300 _a585p.
365 _b9000
365 _dRS
520 _aNations are not trapped by their pasts, but events that happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago continue to exert huge influence on present-day politics. If we are to understand the politics that we now take for granted, we need to understand its origins. Francis Fukuyama examines the paths that different societies have taken to reach their current forms of political order. This book starts with the very beginning of mankind and comes right up to the eve of the French and American revolutions, spanning such diverse disciplines as economics, anthropology and geography.The Origins of Political Orders a magisterial study on the emergence of mankind as a political animal, by one of the most eminent political thinkers writing today
650 _aPolitics-Primate ancestors
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