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How We Invented Freedom & Why It Matters (Paperback)
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How We Invented Freedom & Why It Matters (Paperback)
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List price R317
Loot Price R266
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This book tells the story of freedom and explains how it is a
uniquely 'British', rather than 'Western', invention. It shows how
the inhabitants of a damp island at the western tip of the Eurasian
landmass stumbled upon the extraordinary idea that the state was
the servant, and not the master, of the individual. This
revolutionary concept created security of property and contract
which, in turn, led to industrialization and modern capitalism. For
the first time in the history of the species, a system grew up
which, on the whole, rewarded production over predation. The system
was carried across the oceans by English-speakers - sometimes
colonial administrators, sometimes patriotic settlers - where in
Philadelphia 1787, it was distilled into its purest and most
sublime form as the US Constitution. Freedom is the key to the
success of the English-speaking peoples and this book teaches us to
keep fast to that legacy and, in our turn, to pass it intact to the
next generation.
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