The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2011)
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Early reviewers describe this magisterial study as a "hominids-to-guillotines chronicle of humanity's attempts to build strong, accountable governments", "nothing less than a unified theory of state formation," and "that rare work of history with up-to-the-minute relevance."

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