{"product_id":"inventing-freedom-how-the-english-speaking-peoples-made-the-modern-world-9780062231741","title":"Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World","description":"\u003cp\u003eBritish politician Daniel Hannan's \u003cem\u003eInventing Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to Hannan, 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 that we Americans, along with other former British colonies, inherited. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the tenth 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 U.S. Constitution--and how it came to defeat every international rival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday we see those ideas abandoned and scorned in the places where they once went unchallenged. \u003cem\u003eInventing Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Broadside Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062231741\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.90d","brand":"Daniel Hannan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44736643530933,"sku":"9780062231741","price":13.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_2485dee0-343e-46ea-9fba-36ac4bb54dc4.jpg?v=1729609898","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/inventing-freedom-how-the-english-speaking-peoples-made-the-modern-world-9780062231741","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}