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

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

by Orlando Patterson
ISBN-10:
0465025323
ISBN-13:
9780465025329
Pub. Date:
10/14/1992
Publisher:
Basic Books
ISBN-10:
0465025323
ISBN-13:
9780465025329
Pub. Date:
10/14/1992
Publisher:
Basic Books
Freedom: Volume I: Freedom In The Making Of Western Culture

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

by Orlando Patterson
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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780465025329
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 10/14/1992
Series: Freedom , #1
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 512
Product dimensions: 5.38(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)
Lexile: 1510L (what's this?)

About the Author

Orlando Patterson is the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University.

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"This erudite, eloquent, and immensely thought-provoking work gets to the heart of the deepest contradictions within our cultural heritage."

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