Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World - Daniel Hannan

Category: Education, Political
Language: English
Keywords: America Culture Freedom History Liberty Non-Fiction Philosophy Tyranny

Written by Daniel Hannan
Read by Shaun Grindell
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 14h 33m

British politician Daniel Hannan’s ‘Inventing Freedom’ is an ambitious account of the historical origin and spread of the principles that have made America great and their role in creating a sphere of economic and political liberty that is as crucial as it is imperiled.

The ideas and institutions we consider essential to maintaining and preserving our freedoms—individual rights, private property, the rule of law, and the institutions of representative government—are the legacy of a very specific tradition that was born in England and was inherited by Americans, along with other former British colonies.

By the 10th century, England was a nation-state whose people were already starting to define themselves with reference to inherited common-law rights.

The story of liberty is the story of how that model triumphed: how it was enshrined in a series of landmark victories—the Magna Carta, the English Civil War, the Glorious Revolution, the US Constitution—and how it came to defeat every international rival.

Today we see those ideas abandoned and scorned in the places where they once went unchallenged.

‘Inventing Freedom’ is a chronicle of the success of Anglosphere exceptionalism, and it is offered at a time that may turn out to be the end of the age of political freedom.

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Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Anglosphere Miracle
1 The Same Language, the Same Hymns, the Same Ideals
2 Anglo-Saxon Liberties
3 Rediscovering England
4 Liberty and Property
5 The First Anglosphere Civil War
6 The Second Anglosphere Civil War
7 Anglobalization
8 From Empire to Anglosphere
9 Consider What Nation It Is Whereof Ye Are
Conclusion: Anglosphere Twilight?
Index

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