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Alan Ryan - On Politics: A History of Political Thought, From Herodotus to the Present

It's in two parts. It's fairly pricey but if you can get your hands on it, it's worth it.

It goes through the major political writers from Ancient Greece to the present day, what brought them to write what they did, how what they wrote was driven by the politics of their day, basically an exposition of the major political writings. It's more of a general history than a specific history

The entire book, both parts, equal ~1100 pages. If you're able to get through it all, you'll easily be able to branch out from there and become more acquainted with the origins of political ideologies and how to search out more info from there.

In addition, you may want to supplement with:

Francis Fukuyama
The Origins of Political Order.

Also in two parts, second part was just recently published. Not perfect, but it will give brief synopses on why certain states "chose", for a lack of a better word, their form of government. It's quite useful.