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Freedom

Freedom

Volume I: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture
Orlando Patterson (Author)
October 1992
Trade Paperback · 512 Pages
$24.00 U.S. · $29.00 CAN · £15.99 U.K. · €16.99 E.U.
ISBN 9780465025329
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Description

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.

About the Author

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