Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe
Subtitle: From Machiavelli to Milton
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780691163833
Subjects: Liberia, history; Political science, europe; Political science, history
Description: "Europe's long sixteenth century--a period spanning the years roughly from the voyages of Columbus in the 1490s to the English Civil War in the 1640s--was an era of power struggles between avaricious and unscrupulous princes, inquistions and torture chambers, and religious differences of ever more violent fervor. Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe argues that this turbulent age also laid the conceptual foundations of our modern ideas about liberty, justice, and democracy"--Jacket.