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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... France the first really modern state . For his military purposes Louis XIV found another genius in Louvois , who created the first modern army . France had had a typical feudal army , untrained , undisciplined , often unpaid , addicted ...
... France the first really modern state . For his military purposes Louis XIV found another genius in Louvois , who created the first modern army . France had had a typical feudal army , untrained , undisciplined , often unpaid , addicted ...
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... France . As for Napoleon's military career , in which his genius was most ap- parent , there is no need of detailing it here , nor of going into the vexed question of how sincere his patriotism was . ( Pieter Geyl has filled a volume ...
... France . As for Napoleon's military career , in which his genius was most ap- parent , there is no need of detailing it here , nor of going into the vexed question of how sincere his patriotism was . ( Pieter Geyl has filled a volume ...
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... France never recovered from it . More portentous for Europe was an unforeseen by - product . In his early tirades against the Revolution , Edmund Burke predicted that for a long time to come once mighty France " need no longer be ...
... France never recovered from it . More portentous for Europe was an unforeseen by - product . In his early tirades against the Revolution , Edmund Burke predicted that for a long time to come once mighty France " need no longer be ...
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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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