How We Invented Freedom & Why It Matters: Winner of the Polemic of the Year at the Paddy Power Political Book Awards 2014 - Softcover

Hannan, Daniel

 
9781781857564: How We Invented Freedom & Why It Matters: Winner of the Polemic of the Year at the Paddy Power Political Book Awards 2014
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1781857563 ISBN 13: 9781781857564
Verlag: Head of Zeus, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

This book tells the story of freedom and explains how it is a uniquely 'British', rather than 'Western', invention. It shows how the inhabitants of a damp island at the western tip of the Eurasian landmass stumbled upon the extraordinary idea that the state was the servant, and not the master, of the individual.

This revolutionary concept created security of property and contract which, in turn, led to industrialization and modern capitalism. For the first time in the history of the species, a system grew up which, on the whole, rewarded production over predation. The system was carried across the oceans by English-speakers - sometimes colonial administrators, sometimes patriotic settlers - where in Philadelphia 1787, it was distilled into its purest and most sublime form as the US Constitution.

Freedom is the key to the success of the English-speaking peoples and this book teaches us to keep fast to that legacy and, in our turn, to pass it intact to the next generation.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Daniel Hannan has been Conservative MEP for South East England since 1999. His speech against Gordon Brown in 2010 is the most watched political video in Britain. He blogs regularly at www.hannan.co.uk and for the Daily Telegraph.

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Verlag
Head of Zeus
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1781857563
ISBN 13 
9781781857564
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
416
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