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Political order and political decay from the industrial revolution to the globalization of democracy

"The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In The New York Times Book Review, Michael...

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Main Author: Fukuyama, Francis
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
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State, The > History.
Order > History.
Comparative government > History.
Democracy > History.
Globalization > Political aspects.
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