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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... ships , even reaching the coast of North America some five hundred years before Columbus . Their feats were not only extraordinary but historically significant , for they realized as the Anglo - Saxons had not the possibilities of ...
... ships , even reaching the coast of North America some five hundred years before Columbus . Their feats were not only extraordinary but historically significant , for they realized as the Anglo - Saxons had not the possibilities of ...
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... ships managed to complete the first circumnavigation of the globe . And this whole enter- prise - beginning with the program of Henry the Navigator , the first monarch in history to devote himself primarily to fostering geographi- cal ...
... ships managed to complete the first circumnavigation of the globe . And this whole enter- prise - beginning with the program of Henry the Navigator , the first monarch in history to devote himself primarily to fostering geographi- cal ...
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... ships were distinctly inferior to those of the Arabs , from whom they had much to learn about practical navigation as well ; in setting up his program for exploration , Henry the Navigator called in not only sailors but shipbuilders and ...
... ships were distinctly inferior to those of the Arabs , from whom they had much to learn about practical navigation as well ; in setting up his program for exploration , Henry the Navigator called in not only sailors but shipbuilders and ...
Contenido
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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