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What Price Liberty?
Ben Wilson
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Description for What Price Liberty?
Paperback. With fear of terrorism, crime and social chaos putting our ideal of individual liberty very much into retreat, how can we maintain the principles we fought so hard to attain? This title takes us through four centuries of civil liberty; how it was constructed, and has been re-thought and re-fought to adapt to new circumstances. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 33. Weight in Grams: 372.
Join the first, most comprehensive discussion on 'liberty' - the defining issue of the twenty-first Century. With fear of terrorism, crime and social chaos putting our ideal of individual liberty very much into retreat, how can we maintain the principles we fought so hard to attain?
History provides a guide to answering this question. What Price Liberty? takes us through four centuries of civil liberty; how it was constructed, and has been re-thought and re-fought to adapt to new circumstances. An essential and utterly enlightening discussion, What Price Liberty? provides the material and arguments with which we can make ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571235957
SKU
V9780571235957
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-20
About Ben Wilson
Ben Wilson was born in 1980 and studied history at Cambridge, both as an undergraduate and postgraduate. He is the author of two previous critically-acclaimed books, The Laughter of Triumph: William Hone and the Fight for the Free Press (2005) and Decency and Disorder: The Age of Cant 1789-1837.
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