Inventing freedom : how the English-speaking peoples made the modern world
2013
323.44 H243 2013
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Title
Inventing freedom : how the English-speaking peoples made the modern world
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Broadside, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2013.
Description
xii, 395 p. ; 24 cm
Call Number
323.44 H243 2013
System Control No.
(OCoLC)827260158
Note
Includes index.
Contents: The Anglosphere miracle -- The same language, the same hymns, the same ideals -- Anglo-Saxon liberties -- Rediscovering England -- Liberty and property -- The first Anglosphere Civil War -- The second Anglosphere Civil War -- Anglobalization -- From empire to Anglosphere -- Consider what nation it is whereof ye are -- Anglosphere twilight?
L2013M192
Account of the historical origin and spread of those principles, and their role in creating a sphere of economic and political liberty that is as crucial as it is imperiled. According to the author, the ideas and institutions we consider essential to maintaining and preserving our freedoms--individual rights, private property, the rule of law, and the institutions of representative government--are not broadly "Western" in the usual sense of the term. Rather, they are the legacy of a very specific tradition, one that was born in England and that the Americans, along with other former British colonies, inherited. By the tenth century, a thousand years before most modern countries, England was a nation-state whose people were already starting to define themselves with reference to common-law rights. Inventing Freedom explains why the extraordinary idea that the state was the servant, not the ruler, of the individual evolved uniquely in the English-speaking world. It is a chronicle of the success of Anglosphere exceptionalism.--From publisher description.
Contents: The Anglosphere miracle -- The same language, the same hymns, the same ideals -- Anglo-Saxon liberties -- Rediscovering England -- Liberty and property -- The first Anglosphere Civil War -- The second Anglosphere Civil War -- Anglobalization -- From empire to Anglosphere -- Consider what nation it is whereof ye are -- Anglosphere twilight?
L2013M192
Account of the historical origin and spread of those principles, and their role in creating a sphere of economic and political liberty that is as crucial as it is imperiled. According to the author, the ideas and institutions we consider essential to maintaining and preserving our freedoms--individual rights, private property, the rule of law, and the institutions of representative government--are not broadly "Western" in the usual sense of the term. Rather, they are the legacy of a very specific tradition, one that was born in England and that the Americans, along with other former British colonies, inherited. By the tenth century, a thousand years before most modern countries, England was a nation-state whose people were already starting to define themselves with reference to common-law rights. Inventing Freedom explains why the extraordinary idea that the state was the servant, not the ruler, of the individual evolved uniquely in the English-speaking world. It is a chronicle of the success of Anglosphere exceptionalism.--From publisher description.
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