Age of Revolutions : Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

Fareed Zakaria first warned of the threat of “illiberal democracy” two decades ago.In Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present, he sets our era of populist chaos into the sweep of history. Based on deep research and conversations with world leaders from Emmanuel Macron to Lee Kuan Yew, this book tells the story of progress and backlash, of the rise of classical liberalism and of the many periods of rage and counter-revolution that followed seismic change.From the Dutch Republic - the first modern republic, techno-superpower, and haven for liberalism almost snuffed out by force - and the French Revolution to the Industrial Revolution in Britain and the United States, it traces the rise of the world’s modern superpowers, the birth of the political divides we know today, and the ways in which technology unsettled society and caused backlash from those who felt threatened by this new world.Zakaria also details the revolutions that have convulsed our times: globali