Fukuyama does us all a service by reopening the conversation on the development of societies, seeking generalizable principles without giving into a simplistic deterministic view. I don't know that I buy into everything in the book, but it's a pleasant shift from the nuance-less propositions of ...
Hajo Holborn, A History of Modern Germany 1648–1840 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982), pp. 22–23. 2. Hans Rosenberg, Bureaucracy, Aristocracy, and Autocracy: The Prussian Experience, 1660–1815 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1958), pp. 8–10. 3. For a discussion of early ...