Freedom in the making of Western culture
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Freedom in the making of Western culture
（Freedom / Orlando patterson, v. 1）
Basic Books, c1991
- : cloth
- : paper
Available at 31 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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.
Table of Contents
The Stillbirth Of Freedom In The Non-Western World * Primitive Beginnings * For the Creation of Eyes: Why Freedom Failed in the Non-Western World The Greek Construction Of Freedom * The Greek Origins of Freedom * The Emergence of Slave Society and Civic Freedom * The Persian Wars and the Creation of Organic (Sovereignal) Freedom * Slavery, Empire, and the Periclean Fusion * A Womans Song: The Female Force and the Ideology of Freedom in Greek Tragedy and Society * Fission and Diffusion: Class and the Elements of Freedom in the Late Fifth Century and Beyond * The Outer Intellectual Response * The Turn to Inner Freedom * The Intellectual Response in the Hellenistic and Early Roman World Rome And The Universalization Of Freedom * Freedom and Class Conflict in Republican Rome * The Triumph of the Roman Freedman: Personal Liberty among the Urban Masses of the Early Empire * The Augustan Compromise: Sovereignal Freedom in Defense of Personal Liberty * Freedom, Stoicism, and the Roman Mind Christianity And The Institutionalization Of Freedom * Jesus and the Jesus Movement * Between Jesus and Paul * Paul and His World: A Community of Urban Freedmen * Paul and the Freedom of Mankind The Medieval Reconstruction Of Freedom * Freedom and Servitude in the Middle Ages * Medieval Renditions of the Chord of Freedom * Freedom in the Religious and Secular Thought of the Middle Ages
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