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The Origins Of Political Order: From Prehuman Times To The French Revolution (2011)

by Francis Fukuyama(Favorite Author)

4.04 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0374227349 (ISBN13: 9780374227340)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

review 1: If you are interested in political history this is a book you will enjoy. I might not agree with everything that Fukuyama put forth but it was definitely an interesting read. i hindsight I would look at this book more as a history book with an emphasis on politics. It is interesting how one can draw parallels between pasta an current regimes in for example Russia. I don't read a lot of book like this but it is good to switch it up once in a while. Therefore I did not pick up on everything that was put forth but got the broad strokes and found it all to be very interesting. So if this is something you think you might enjoy I would recommend it.
review 2: This is 500 pages of really serious history of the world's various forms of government from prehistory to the... more French revolution. The author is attempting to develop a theory as to How Denmark Got to Be Denmark, and everywhere else as well. There is a great deal of material on every place in the world except nothing at all on the United States. I assume the U.S. will figure prominently in Volume II.To this point, one quote from the last pages in the book puzzled me greatly: "The environmental and social conditions that gave rise to democracy were unique to Europe." Democracy did not arise in Europe, it arose in the United States for the first time on Earth. I can't imagine what the author was thinking to write such a thing. I suppose he was referring to the original philosophic writing that guided our founding fathers to create the first true democracy.A second error he makes is stating that primitive hunter/gatherer bands were more egalitarian than tribal groups which came later in development. In fact, both these group types of humans are dominated by alpha-males who do not brook dissent. They are definitely not egalitarian. Jane Goodall could have told him that.Never the less, I will move on to Volume II. less

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