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The Dimensions of Liberty / Oscar Handlin, Mary Handlin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Handlin, Oscar, author.
- Handlin, Mary, author.
- Series:
- Center for the Study of the History of Liberty in America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Liberty.
- Power (Social sciences).
- HISTORY / United States / General.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
- United States--Politics and government.
- United States--Social conditions.
- Local Subjects:
- HISTORY / United States / General.
- Liberty.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
- United States--Politics and government.
- United States--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- Reprint 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Using the ability of the individual to take action as a working measure of the extent of liberty at any time, Oscar Handlin and Mary Handlin identify and describe numerous factors that have had an important effect on American freedom since colonial days. In defining the broad dimensions of the conception, they investigate, among other subjects, the significance of the idea that the state derived power from the consent of the governed, the early concept of the Commonwealth, the later one of police powers, the roles played by governmental institutions, churches, secret lodges, voluntary associations of all kinds, immigration, the professions, continuing social and physical mobility, and the growth of wealth.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- I. LIBERTY AND POWER
- II. THE PROCEDURES FOR THE EXERCISE OF POWER
- III. THE LIMITS OF POLITICAL POWER
- IV. THE ENDS OF THE USE OF POWER
- V. VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS
- VI. RESTRICTIVE ASSOCIATION
- VII. POWER AND THE WEALTH OF MEN
- VIII. QUESTIONS OF CHRONOLOGY AND CAUSE
- NOTES. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. INDEX
- NOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-674-18262-6
- OCLC:
- 1013966119
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