Freedom: Volume I: Freedom In The Making Of Western Culture

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Imprint: Basic Books (Oct 14, 1992)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Perseus Books
ISBN: 9780465025329

Description of Freedom: Volume I: Freedom In The Making Of Western Culture


This magisterial work traces the history of our most cherished value. Patterson links the birth of freedom in primitive societies with the institution of slavery, and traces the evolution of three forms of freedom in the West from antiquity through the Middle Ages.
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