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From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
April 2011
On Sale: April 12, 2011
608 pages
ISBN: 0374227349
EAN: 9780374227340
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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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