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Bestselling historian Peter Moore traces how Enlightenment ideas were exported from Britain and put into practice in America – where they became the most successful export of all time, the American Dream
’Absorbing… fascinating… eloquent’ THE TIMES’Engaging and thoroughly…
Kategorier: Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria
This thesis explores the analytical relationship between geoism, also known as left-libertarianism, and libertarian anarchism. Geoists argue that private property in land is unjust since no one has created the land. Furthermore, they contend that such landownership is the root cause of many social problems, generating…
The Faber Poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T.S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Each passing decade has seen it grow with the addition of poets who are among the finest of their generation. The Liberty Faber Poetry Diary is a celebration of this…
Religious liberty is usually examined within a larger discussion of church-state relations, but Thomas Kselman looks at several individuals in Restoration France whose high-profile conversions fascinated their contemporaries. Exploring their reasons and the repercussions they faced, Kselman demonstrates how this…
If you think all conservatives are old white dudes, think again.
Meet the Chicks on the Right (if you haven’t already).
Everyone loves to tell them they’re wrong. Everyone. Liberals say they’re wrong because, well, they’re conservative. Conservatives tell them they’re wrong because they…
The Ranters – like the Levellers and the Diggers – were a group of religious libertarians who flourished during the English Civil War (1642-1651), a period of social and religious turmoil which saw, in the words of the historian Christopher Hill, ’the world turned upside down’.
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Make little girls’ dreams come true with the prettiest sewing projects ever imagined!
Sewn in Liberty’s timeless classic florals, rainbow hues and delicate prints, this exquisite collection of easy sewing patterns will help you bring joy and colour to any little girl’s life.
Let her snuggle up in a…
In a world filled with constant religious intolerance and strife, it is easy to overlook a little known twentieth-century religious war that was fought on the shores of North America. Taking place in Mexico in the 1920s, La Cristiada – he Cristero War – was the result of repressive anti-religious laws…
Uncovering the forgotten lineage of the Statue of Liberty, Bob Hieronimus and Laura Cortner explain how she is based on a female symbol representing America on the earliest maps of the continent in the form of a Native American “Queen.” The image of a woman symbolising independence was embraced by the American…
Blue and white ironstone dinnerware has been collected for many years, and the introduction of the Liberty Blue pattern in 1975 by Enoch Wedgwood of England, with its fifteen different historic scenes of colonial America, brought forth keen interest. Here the Old North Church, Minutemen, West Point, Independence Hall,…
Blue and white ironstone dinnerware has been collected for many years, and the introduction of the Liberty Blue pattern in 1975 by Enoch Wedgwood of England, with its fifteen different historic scenes of colonial America, brought forth keen interest. Here the Old North Church, Minutemen, West Point, Independence Hall,…
Kategorier: Mänskliga och medborgerliga friheter och rättigheter Politik och statsskick Politiskt kontroll och politisk frihet Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
“Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.”
Article 18 of the…
Liberty is a contested concept, and different interpretations of it, and of its value, abound. Liberty Revisited argues for an interpretation of liberty that focuses on symmetrical relations of power and influence, rather than separate instances of action. Enjoying liberty requires that one is not subordinated.…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
För 250 år sedan gav Peter Forsskål ut en bok med krav på mänskliga rättigheter. Boken, som hette Tankar om den borgerliga friheten, blev genast förbjuden och den som påträffades med exemplar i sitt hem fick betala böter. Trots detta kom texten att spridas och bidra till den tryckfrihet som några år senare infördes i…
Det är tidigt åttiotal. Biståndet till utvecklingsländer, det som för hette u-hjälp, har vuxit till att bli en skandinavisk paradgren i världen. I Sverige har SIDA funnits i femton år och en procent av BNI går numera till fattiga länder i Asien och Afrika. Danskarna visar samma goda vilja, man har gått från 0,1 procent…