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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... important work . The advances they made - especially in mathematics , chemistry , physics , astronomy , and geography - are too technical to be detailed here ; but suffice it that they helped substantially to prepare the way for the ...
... important work . The advances they made - especially in mathematics , chemistry , physics , astronomy , and geography - are too technical to be detailed here ; but suffice it that they helped substantially to prepare the way for the ...
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... important than it did to contemporary Romans , who mostly failed to notice that the Empire was no more . The barbarians had been infiltrating it for more than a century , forming the bulk of its army , gradually dominating its admini ...
... important than it did to contemporary Romans , who mostly failed to notice that the Empire was no more . The barbarians had been infiltrating it for more than a century , forming the bulk of its army , gradually dominating its admini ...
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... important point at this stage remains that they were free , and had flourished in freedom . Since the merchants needed some assurance as well for the escaped serfs who worked for them , it presently became established that a man who had ...
... important point at this stage remains that they were free , and had flourished in freedom . Since the merchants needed some assurance as well for the escaped serfs who worked for them , it presently became established that a man who had ...
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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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