This book tells the story of freedom and explains how it is a uniquely 'British', rather than 'Western', invention. It shows how the inhabitants of a damp islan

Why does the world speak English? Why does every country at least pretend to aspire to representative government, personal freedom, and an independent judiciary

The invention of modern freedom—the equating of liberty with restraints on state power—was not the natural outcome of such secular Western trends as the gro

An exciting account of the origins of the modern world Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capital

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