Freedom in the Western World: From the Dark Ages to the Rise of DemocracyHarper & Row, 1963 - 428 Seiten Herbert J. Muller examines the meaning of freedom in the great civilizations of the past including the Sumerian, Egyptian, Minoan, Assyrian, Persian, Phoenician, Greek, Roman and early Christian. Ranging from the attempts of the cave man to free himself from the tyranny of nature through magic and ritual, to the religious despotism of Byzantium, the author surveys freedom's gains and triumps, its losses and failures. In doing so, he provides the reader with new insight into the meaning and destiny of freedom in Western Civilization. |
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... Spanish armies.10 At any rate , the Hollanders made the most of their strategic advantages . They took over the commerce of Spanish Netherlands , ruined by a generation of war and oppression , and secured it by blockading the river ...
... Spanish armies.10 At any rate , the Hollanders made the most of their strategic advantages . They took over the commerce of Spanish Netherlands , ruined by a generation of war and oppression , and secured it by blockading the river ...
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... Spanish ambassador , who in his Philip II knew an honest - to - God absolute monarch , was prophetic . " These heretics neither fear God nor obey their betters , " he wrote of one parliament . " I said what they wanted was simple ...
... Spanish ambassador , who in his Philip II knew an honest - to - God absolute monarch , was prophetic . " These heretics neither fear God nor obey their betters , " he wrote of one parliament . " I said what they wanted was simple ...
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... Spanish crown , as freebooters they were not men to organize an empire . Within a generation the royal government stepped in , to assure a more regular flow of precious metal . In administering the “ Indies , " it sent over governors ...
... Spanish crown , as freebooters they were not men to organize an empire . Within a generation the royal government stepped in , to assure a more regular flow of precious metal . In administering the “ Indies , " it sent over governors ...
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The Rise and Fall of Islam | 1 |
THE Origins of WESTERN CIVILIZATION | 25 |
The Medieval Sources of Freedom | 47 |
Urheberrecht | |
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