Pictured above is a lighthouse in Minnesota.Originally settled by
the pre-historic hunter gatherers, Native Americans, French Traders, and then Europeans, the area that is now known as Minnesota became an official possession of a new American nation with the acquisition of the Northwestern Territory following the War of American Independence.Decades later, the fully - fledged United States -LSB-...]
Following the example of other distinguished political scientists such as Azar Gat and Francis Fukuyama [2], Brown even extends the analysis of leadership back to
pre-historic times analysing its emergence in earlier forms of social organization such as egalitarian
hunter -
gatherer societies noting that with increased community size came the rise of authoritarian chiefdoms, arguably the first true political leaders (pp. 40 - 2).