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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... brought misery or even famine to the peasantry , his treasury was no longer able to meet the costs of his wars . The Grand Monarch was too vain or myopic ever to remark what his successor , Louis XV , said , “ Après nous le déluge ...
... brought misery or even famine to the peasantry , his treasury was no longer able to meet the costs of his wars . The Grand Monarch was too vain or myopic ever to remark what his successor , Louis XV , said , “ Après nous le déluge ...
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... brought up . Though they were still given to a romantic idealization of antiquity , now beginning to feature more radiant Greeks to go with Roman patriots and tyranni- cides , and to inspire a revival of classical forms in public ...
... brought up . Though they were still given to a romantic idealization of antiquity , now beginning to feature more radiant Greeks to go with Roman patriots and tyranni- cides , and to inspire a revival of classical forms in public ...
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... brought out some national aptitude for self - righteousness or possible hypocrisy before it brought on the fiercest war of the nineteenth cen- tury , which among other things demonstrated that Southerners had become slaves of their ...
... brought out some national aptitude for self - righteousness or possible hypocrisy before it brought on the fiercest war of the nineteenth cen- tury , which among other things demonstrated that Southerners had become slaves of their ...
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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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