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Freedom - An Unruly History

English · Hardback

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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.

About the author

Annelien de Dijn is Professor of Modern Political History at Utrecht University and the author of French Political Thought from Montesquieu to Tocqueville. Her research has been supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, and the Independent Social Research Foundation.

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.

Product details

Authors Annelien De Dijn, Professor Annelien De Dijn, Annelien De Dijn, Professor Annelien De Dijn
Publisher Harvard University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.07.2020
 
EAN 9780674988330
ISBN 978-0-674-98833-0
No. of pages 432
Dimensions 165 mm x 245 mm x 40 mm
Subject Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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