Freedom: An Unruly History 9780674988330, 0674988337

Utrecht University historian de Dijn (French Political Thought from Montesquieu to Tocqueville) explores how the concept

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Freedom: An Unruly History
 9780674988330, 0674988337

Table of contents :
Contents
Introduction An Elusive Concept
Part I The Long History of Freedom
1 Slaves to No Man Freedom in Ancient Greece
2 The Rise and Fall of Roman Liberty
Part II Freedom’s Revival
3 The Renaissance of Freedom
4 Freedom in the Atlantic Revolutions
Part III Rethinking Freedom
5 Inventing Modern Liberty
6 The Triumph of Modern Liberty
Epilogue Freedom in the Twenty-First Century
Notes
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
Index

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