Freedom : an unruly history /

"The invention of modern freedom-the equating of liberty with restraints on state power-was not the natural outcome of such secular Western trends as the growth of religious tolerance or the creation of market societies. Rather, it was propelled by an antidemocratic backlash following the Atlan...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dijn, Annelien de, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020
Subjects:
Liberty.
Power (Social sciences)
Government, Resistance to.
Liberté.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales)
Résistance au gouvernement.
freedom.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
Government, Resistance to
Liberty
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. An elusive concept
  • Part I. The long history of freedom: slaves to no man
  • The rise and fall of Roman liberty
  • Part II. Freedom's revival: The renaissance of freedom
  • Freedom in the Atlantic revolutions
  • Part III. Rethinking freedom: Inventing modern liberty
  • The triumph of modern liberty
  • Epilogue: Freedom in the twenty-first century.

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