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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... helped to inspire the early explorations , especially because the Portuguese and Spaniards had long been engaged in struggles with the Moors . But there is less question that religion helped chiefly to rationalize the stronger economic ...
... helped to inspire the early explorations , especially because the Portuguese and Spaniards had long been engaged in struggles with the Moors . But there is less question that religion helped chiefly to rationalize the stronger economic ...
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... helped to accumulate makes it easier to reach the commonplace conclusion that the truth lies between these extremes . Almost all French peasants were indeed legally free men . Serfdom , still the rule in central and eastern Europe , had ...
... helped to accumulate makes it easier to reach the commonplace conclusion that the truth lies between these extremes . Almost all French peasants were indeed legally free men . Serfdom , still the rule in central and eastern Europe , had ...
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... helped to organize the coup d'état that put Napoleon in power , in order to assure the rule of the " notables , " and Napoleon reciprocated by treating the bourgeois as a main prop of the state , in his Code safeguarding above all the ...
... helped to organize the coup d'état that put Napoleon in power , in order to assure the rule of the " notables , " and Napoleon reciprocated by treating the bourgeois as a main prop of the state , in his Code safeguarding above all the ...
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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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