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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... reforms in the interests of effi- ciency alone , he eventually realized one reason why the rulers of Eng- land did not welcome ... reform of Parliament but universal suffrage by free , secret ballot . His followers popularized a new word ...
... reforms in the interests of effi- ciency alone , he eventually realized one reason why the rulers of Eng- land did not welcome ... reform of Parliament but universal suffrage by free , secret ballot . His followers popularized a new word ...
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... reform . While a series of royal ministers - Turgot , Necker , Calonne - kept try- ing to modernize it , in particular to reform the tax system , thoughtful Frenchmen kept suspicious of them as agents of absolutism , and gen- erally ...
... reform . While a series of royal ministers - Turgot , Necker , Calonne - kept try- ing to modernize it , in particular to reform the tax system , thoughtful Frenchmen kept suspicious of them as agents of absolutism , and gen- erally ...
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... reform " ; but men would keep on revolutionizing the whole economy anyway , and government every- where was obliged to risk some innovation . Likewise he may have been right that it was the misfortune , not the glory , of his age that ...
... reform " ; but men would keep on revolutionizing the whole economy anyway , and government every- where was obliged to risk some innovation . Likewise he may have been right that it was the misfortune , not the glory , of his age that ...
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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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