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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... took the lead in a fresh develop- ment . than 20 per cent ever took up a new craft or industry , and most of these ventured upon an innovation but once . Most of England , in other words , remained a traditional agri- cultural society ...
... took the lead in a fresh develop- ment . than 20 per cent ever took up a new craft or industry , and most of these ventured upon an innovation but once . Most of England , in other words , remained a traditional agri- cultural society ...
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... took them through some lands that no Westerner would see again until the nineteenth century . Marco Polo came back talking of “ millions " of everything ; his popular narra- tive of his travels told of cities far greater and richer than ...
... took them through some lands that no Westerner would see again until the nineteenth century . Marco Polo came back talking of “ millions " of everything ; his popular narra- tive of his travels told of cities far greater and richer than ...
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... took pains as well to limit production , chopping down trees and chopping off the heads of recalcitrant producers . ) Similarly all the powers took to mer- cantilism , strictly regulating trade , putting up high tariffs in order to ...
... took pains as well to limit production , chopping down trees and chopping off the heads of recalcitrant producers . ) Similarly all the powers took to mer- cantilism , strictly regulating trade , putting up high tariffs in order to ...
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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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