Freedom in the Western World
Subtitle: from the Dark Ages to the rise of democracy.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1963
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
Subjects: Civilization, Western.; Liberty.
Description: Herbert J. Muller examines the meaning of freedom in the great civilizations of the past including the Sumerian, Egyptian, Minoan, Assyrian, Persian, Phoenician, Greek, Roman and early Christian. Ranging from the attempts of the cave man to free himself from the tyranny of nature through magic and ritual, to the religious despotism of Byzantium, the author surveys freedom's gains and triumps, its losses and failures. In doing so, he provides the reader with new insight into the meaning and destiny of freedom in Western Civilization.