Freedom in the Western World: From the Dark Ages to the Rise of DemocracyHarper & Row, 1963 - 428 páginas 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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... French Revolution has been played down by professional revolutionists in our time , it still looks like the great turning point in modern history . Revolutions have been going on ever since . Waves of them spread over western Europe in ...
... French Revolution has been played down by professional revolutionists in our time , it still looks like the great turning point in modern history . Revolutions have been going on ever since . Waves of them spread over western Europe in ...
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... French people had submitted to nationwide conscription , a compulsory service that Frederick the Great had said no monarch would dare impose on his people , and that Americans would also submit to in their Civil War . Another sign of ...
... French people had submitted to nationwide conscription , a compulsory service that Frederick the Great had said no monarch would dare impose on his people , and that Americans would also submit to in their Civil War . Another sign of ...
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... French , England emerged as the champion of the liberties of Europe . Immediately the patriotism strengthened the monarchs who finally united to defeat Napoleon , and thereupon inaugurated the reactionary era presided over by Metternich ...
... French , England emerged as the champion of the liberties of Europe . Immediately the patriotism strengthened the monarchs who finally united to defeat Napoleon , and thereupon inaugurated the reactionary era presided over by Metternich ...
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The Rise and Fall of Islam | 1 |
THE Origins of WESTERN CIVILIZATION | 25 |
The Medieval Sources of Freedom | 47 |
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Freedom in the Western World: From the Dark Ages to the Rise of Democracy Herbert Joseph Muller Vista de fragmentos - 1963 |
Freedom in the Western World: From the Dark Ages to the Rise of Democracy Herbert Joseph Muller Vista de fragmentos - 1963 |
Términos y frases comunes
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