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

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Release date 2011

Tracklist

1
Preface
13:52
2
The Necessity of Politics
1:07:16
3
The State of Nature
1:08:35
4
The Tyranny of Cousins
42:08
5
Tribal Societies Property, Justice, War
46:33
6
The Coming of the Leviathan
43:16
7
Chinese Tribalism
38:00
8
War and the Rise of the Chinese State
51:17
9
The Great Han System
30:59
10
Political Decay and the Return of Patrimonial Government
35:51
11
The Indian Detour
32:26
12
Varnas and Jatis
36:35
13
Weaknesses of Indian Polities
37:55
14
Slavery and the Muslim Exit from Tribalism
35:04
15
The Mamluks Save Islam
30:24
16
The Functioning and Decline of the Ottoman State
42:15
17
Christianity Undermines the Family
39:31
18
The Origins of the Rule of Law
50:20
19
The State Becomes a Church
43:28
20
The State Becomes a Church
41:36
21
Oriental Despotism
37:11
22
Stationary Bandits
42:55
23
The Rise of Political Accountability
40:41
24
Rente Seekers
54:23
25
Patrimonialism Crosses the Atlantic
52:12
26
East of the Elbe
33:23
27
Toward a More Perfect Absolutism
40:12
28
Taxation and Representation
56:07
29
Why Accountability Why Absolutism
37:41
30
Political Development and Political Decay
1:04:32
31
Political Development, Then and Now
1:08:24

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