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Age of Revolutions
Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
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The international best-selling author explores the revolutions - past and present - that define our chaotic, polarised and unstable age. 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,...
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The international best-selling author explores the revolutions - past and present - that define our chaotic, polarised and unstable age.
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 - globalisation in overdrive, digital transformation, the rise of identity politics, the return of great power politics with a vengeful Russia and an ascendant China, and the democratic decay at home which threatens the very foundations of the world built by the Enlightenment.
The book warns us that liberalism's great strength has been freeing people from arbitrary constraints - but its great weakness has been leaving individuals isolated, a void that can all too easily be filled by tribalism, populism, and identity politics. Today's revolutions in technology and culture can even leave people so adrift that they turn against modernity itself.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781802065596
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 October 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 293g
Pages: 400
About the Author
Fareed Zakaria hosts CNN's flagship international affairs show, Fareed Zakaria GPS, which airs across the world to 220 million households. He writes a weekly column for the Washington Post, which reaches between 80-100 million readers every month. He is the author of The Future of Freedom (2003), The Post-American World (2008) and Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World (2020),
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