A BRIEF HISTORY OF POWER. How Humans Learned to Rule, Obey, Resist, and Rebel: Power is a relationship, a system, hard to resist. (“A BRIEF HISTORY OF…” Book 21) cover art

A BRIEF HISTORY OF POWER. How Humans Learned to Rule, Obey, Resist, and Rebel: Power is a relationship, a system, hard to resist. (“A BRIEF HISTORY OF…” Book 21)

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF POWER. How Humans Learned to Rule, Obey, Resist, and Rebel: Power is a relationship, a system, hard to resist. (“A BRIEF HISTORY OF…” Book 21)

By: Isaac Volpe
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Who really holds power, and why do the rest of us obey?Power has shaped every civilization in human history. It built kingdoms and empires, created laws and institutions, inspired revolutions, and determined who would rule, who would serve, and who would dare to resist.In A Brief History of Power, Isaac Volpe traces humanity’s struggle with authority from primate hierarchies and hunter-gatherer societies to ancient kings, colonial empires, democratic revolutions, totalitarian regimes, digital surveillance, and artificial intelligence.Key Learning Points .Where power comes from: evolutionary dominance, coalition-building, and early human egalitarianism..How hierarchy became permanent through agriculture, property, cities, taxation, writing, religion, and organized government..Why people obey, including the roles of legitimacy, tradition, charisma, law, ideology, and social conditioning..How invisible power works by controlling agendas, shaping preferences, defining acceptable behavior, and limiting what people imagine possible..Why power can corrupt, including its effects on empathy, judgment, accountability, and access to accurate information..How resistance succeeds, from everyday noncompliance and civil disobedience to organized rebellion and democratic revolution.Discover how power is built, justified, challenged, and transformed. Buy and read A Brief History of Power and discover the hidden forces that have ruled humanity for thousands of years.TAGShistory of power, political power, authority and obedience, history of government, political philosophy, rulers and rebels, history of civilization, democracy and dictatorship, tyranny and resistance, rise and fall of empires, social hierarchy, human domination, psychology of power, sociology of power, political theory, history of revolutions, colonialism and empire, totalitarianism, authoritarianism, civil disobedience, social movements©2026 UNITEXTO (P)2026 UNITEXTO Political Science Politics & Government
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