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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... colonists than to the Indians . It promptly began accumulating land and collect- ing a large share of the imperial ... colonies infected Spanish America with their revolutionary example . The first Englishmen to settle in America ...
... colonists than to the Indians . It promptly began accumulating land and collect- ing a large share of the imperial ... colonies infected Spanish America with their revolutionary example . The first Englishmen to settle in America ...
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... colonists should pay a larger share of its upkeep , which included the costs of protecting them . The Stamp Act of 1765 touched off the uproar in the colonies . Though shortly repealed , it was followed by more or less blundering ...
... colonists should pay a larger share of its upkeep , which included the costs of protecting them . The Stamp Act of 1765 touched off the uproar in the colonies . Though shortly repealed , it was followed by more or less blundering ...
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... colonists would have remained dissatisfied had they been granted some members , since Parliament would have pro- ceeded to tax them anyway . In the Declaration of Independence they never even mentioned Parliament , or " the rights of ...
... colonists would have remained dissatisfied had they been granted some members , since Parliament would have pro- ceeded to tax them anyway . In the Declaration of Independence they never even mentioned Parliament , or " the rights of ...
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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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