Freedom : an unruly history / Annelien de Dijn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dijn, Annelien de, 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberty.

Power (Social sciences).

Government, Resistance to.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Many Americans assume that the country was founded by skeptics of “big government,” who saw minimal state power as freedom’s prerequisite. Annelien de Dijn takes on this myth. In fact, this was the view not of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century revolutionaries who created modern democracies, but of their critics and opponents.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: An Elusive Concept

1. Slaves to No Man: Freedom in Ancient Greece

2. The Rise and Fall of Roman Liberty

3. The Renaissance of Freedom

4. Freedom in the Atlantic Revolutions

5. Inventing Modern Liberty

6. The Triumph of Modern Liberty

Epilogue: Freedom in the Twenty-First Century

Notes

Acknowledgments

Illustration Credits

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780674245594

0674245598

9780674245617

067424561X

OCLC:

1198929528