Author: Fukuyama, Francis

Price: $10.16

Category:History
Publication Date:2014-09-30T00:00:01Z
Pages:672
Binding:Hardcover
ISBN:10:0374227357
ISBN:13:9780374227357
In 'The Origins of Political Order', Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions. Here, he picks up the thread again in the second instalment of his definitive account of mankind's emergence as a political animal. This is the story of how state, law, and democracy developed after these cataclysmic events, how the modern landscape - with its uneasy tension between dictatorships and liberal democracies - evolved and, finally, how in the United States and in other developed democracies, unmistakable signs of decay have emerged