Download or read book The History of Government from the Earliest Times: Volume I: Ancient Monarchies and Empires written by S. E. Finer and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999-05-27 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unprecedented survey and analysis of government is planetary in its reach. The late S.E. Finer's tour de force demonstrates the breadth of imagination and magisterial scholarship which characterized the work of one of the leading political scientists of the twentieth century.