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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... followed upon an amazing outburst of creative energy that had made a world essentially different from both the classical and the medieval . And though the Renaissance was not a movement toward political free- dom - though it was marked ...
... followed upon an amazing outburst of creative energy that had made a world essentially different from both the classical and the medieval . And though the Renaissance was not a movement toward political free- dom - though it was marked ...
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... followed the Second Partition of Poland . In western Europe the Belgians forced the issue more sharply by their successful rebellion against Joseph II . When a democratic party proposed equal representation for all citizens in the ...
... followed the Second Partition of Poland . In western Europe the Belgians forced the issue more sharply by their successful rebellion against Joseph II . When a democratic party proposed equal representation for all citizens in the ...
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... followed suit . At about the same time Massachusetts adopted by far the most humane law code of the seventeenth century , when savage punishment was the common rule for even the petty crimes of the poor . Such innovations were also ...
... followed suit . At about the same time Massachusetts adopted by far the most humane law code of the seventeenth century , when savage punishment was the common rule for even the petty crimes of the poor . Such innovations were also ...
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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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