What Price Liberty

Author : Ben Wilson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571251773

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What Price Liberty? by Ben Wilson Pdf

Individual liberty will be the defining issue of the twenty-first century, while fear of terrorism, crime and social chaos has put our ideas of liberty into retreat in recent years. It is clear that there is not just a crisis of liberty, but a crisis in the way people talk about liberty. How do we, as individuals, negotiate the maximum amount of freedom in such a complex world? How can we resist the growth of intrusive authoritarianism without exposing ourselves to crime, terrorism and other risks? Even those who instinctively support social freedoms are losing confidence when confronted with such hard truths. History provides a guide to answering these questions. We have a rich legacy to draw upon to help define our approach to current problems. Yet it is a history which we are in danger of forgetting or misreading. In What Price Liberty? Ben Wilson travels through four centuries of British, American and European history, elaborating not just how civil liberties were constructed in the past, but how they were continually re-thought -and re-fought - in response to modernity. The last chapters put into context the controversies of the last decade or so-the threat of terrorism and the rise of the database nation. If liberty is to survive now it must, like it did in the past, adapt to new circumstances. But to do this we need to agree about the value we place on liberty.

Author : Paul Conton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : IND:30000039942168

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The Price of Liberty by Paul Conton Pdf

The story of a fictional West African country, Sianga. Starting in 1961, on the eve of independence, it traces the country's political development until it hosts the OAU conference in 1978. How long will ordinary Siangans such as Carl and Kwesi tolerate the deterioration of living standards?

Author : Claude Andrew Clegg III
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807895580

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The Price of Liberty by Claude Andrew Clegg III Pdf

In nineteenth-century America, the belief that blacks and whites could not live in social harmony and political equality in the same country led to a movement to relocate African Americans to Liberia, a West African colony established by the United States government and the American Colonization Society in 1822. In The Price of Liberty, Claude Clegg accounts for 2,030 North Carolina blacks who left the state and took up residence in Liberia between 1825 and 1893. By examining both the American and African sides of this experience, Clegg produces a textured account of an important chapter in the historical evolution of the Atlantic world. For almost a century, Liberian emigration connected African Americans to the broader cultures, commerce, communication networks, and epidemiological patterns of the Afro-Atlantic region. But for many individuals, dreams of a Pan-African utopia in Liberia were tempered by complicated relationships with the Africans, whom they dispossessed of land. Liberia soon became a politically unstable mix of newcomers, indigenous peoples, and "recaptured" Africans from westbound slave ships. Ultimately, Clegg argues, in the process of forging the world's second black-ruled republic, the emigrants constructed a settler society marred by many of the same exclusionary, oppressive characteristics common to modern colonial regimes.

Author : Rosemary Thomson (Political activist)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Christian conservatism
ISBN : 0884191796

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The Price of Liberty by Rosemary Thomson (Political activist) Pdf

Author : Richard Price
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1776
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:N11671426

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Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty by Richard Price Pdf

Author : Paul Frame
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783162178

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Liberty's Apostle - Richard Price, His Life and Times by Paul Frame Pdf

Born in the village of Llangeinor, near Bridgend in south Wales, Richard Price (1723–91) was, to his contemporaries, an apostle of liberty, an enemy to tyranny and a great benefactor of the human race. His friend Benjamin Franklin described aspects of his work as ‘the foremost production of human understanding that this century has afforded us’. A supporter of the American and French Revolutions, Price corresponded with the likes of Jefferson, Adams, Washington, Mirabeau and Condorcet. In November 1789 he publicly welcomed the start of the French Revolution and thus inspired not only Edmund Burke to write his rebuttal in Reflections on the Revolution in France, but also the Revolution Controversy, ‘the most crucial ideological debate ever carried on in English’. Price also brought to world attention the Bayes-Price Theorem on probability, which is the invisible background to so much in modern life, and wrote a fundamental text on moral philosophy. Yet, despite all this and more, he remains little-known beyond academia, a situation that this biography helps to rectify. Liberty’s Apostle tells his life story through his published works and, fully for the first time, his now published correspondence with a host of eighteenth century celebrities. The life revealed is of a truly remarkable Welshman and, as Condorcet remarked, of ‘one of the formative minds’ of the eighteenth century Enlightenment.

Author : Robert D. Hormats
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429928021

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The Price of Liberty by Robert D. Hormats Pdf

In a bracing work of history, a leading international finance expert reveals how our national security depends on our financial security More than two centuries ago, America's first secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton, identified the Revolutionary War debt as a threat to the nation's creditworthiness and its very existence. In response, he established financial principles for securing the country—principles that endure to this day. In this provocative history, Robert D. Hormats, one of America's leading experts on international finance, shows how leaders from Madison and Lincoln to FDR and Reagan have followed Hamilton's ideals, from the greenback and a progressive income tax to the Victory Bond and Victory Garden campaigns and cost-sharing with allies. Drawing on these historical lessons, Hormats argues that the rampant borrowing to pay for the war in Iraq and the short-sighted tax cuts in the face of a long-term war on terrorism run counter to American tradition and place our country's security in peril. To meet the threats facing us, Hormats contends, we must significantly realign our economic policies—on taxes, Social Security, Medicare, and oil dependency—to safeguard our liberty and our future.

Author : Elizabeth Price Foley
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300134995

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Liberty for All by Elizabeth Price Foley Pdf

divIn the opening chapter of this book, Elizabeth Price Foley writes, “The slow, steady, and silent subversion of the Constitution has been a revolution that Americans appear to have slept through, unaware that the blessings of liberty bestowed upon them by the founding generation were being eroded.” She proceeds to explain how, by abandoning the founding principles of limited government and individual liberty, we have become entangled in a labyrinth of laws that regulate virtually every aspect of behavior and limit what we can say, read, see, consume, and do. Foley contends that the United States has become a nation of too many laws where citizens retain precious few pockets of individual liberty. With a close analysis of urgent constitutional questions—abortion, physician-assisted suicide, medical marijuana, gay marriage, cloning, and U.S. drug policy—Foley shows how current constitutional interpretation has gone astray. Without the bias of any particular political agenda, she argues convincingly that we need to return to original conceptions of the Constitution and restore personal freedoms that have gradually diminished over time./DIV

Author : John Bona,Don Schanzenbach
Publisher : BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781424552900

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The Liberty Book by John Bona,Don Schanzenbach Pdf

News reports bring to our ears daily stories of further intrusion in our lives and increased regulations too many to number. America is losing its heritage of God-given freedoms, which were originally derived from biblical teaching. We sense that our well-sung liberties are being lost to a point of no return. The Liberty Book examines the Christian roots of liberty, idolatry, taxation, foundations for freedom, the right to bear arms, the great freedom documents in history, pro-life and liberty, land rights, social involvement, and more. With God’s help freedom can be revived. We must all work to pull America back from the cliffs-edge fall into tyranny. Our nation is again in search of genuine liberty under God. Discover what Bible-based liberty looks like and how it can be won for you and your children.

Author : Ron Paul
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781455504435

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Liberty Defined by Ron Paul Pdf

In Liberty Defined, congressman and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ron Paul returns with his most provocative, comprehensive, and compelling arguments for personal freedom to date. The term "Liberty" is so commonly used in our country that it has become a mere cliché. But do we know what it means? What it promises? How it factors into our daily lives? And most importantly, can we recognize tyranny when it is sold to us disguised as a form of liberty? Dr. Paul writes that to believe in liberty is not to believe in any particular social and economic outcome. It is to trust in the spontaneous order that emerges when the state does not intervene in human volition and human cooperation. It permits people to work out their problems for themselves, build lives for themselves, take risks and accept responsibility for the results, and make their own decisions. It is the seed of America. This is a comprehensive guide to Dr. Paul's position on fifty of the most important issues of our times, from Abortion to Zionism. Accessible, easy to digest, and fearless in its discussion of controversial topics, LIBERTY DEFINED sheds new light on a word that is losing its shape.

Author : Charles Carleton Coffin
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4064066051976

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The Story of Liberty by Charles Carleton Coffin Pdf

The Story of Liberty covers a period of five hundred years fight for liberty, from the Magna Carta (1215) up to the landing of the Pilgrims in Massachusetts (1620) Contents: John Lackland and the Barons The Man Who Preached After He Was Dead The Fire That Was Kindled in Bohemia What Laurence Coster and John Gutenberg Did for Liberty The Men Who Ask Questions How a Man Tried to Reach the East by Sailing West The New Home of Liberty A Boy Who Objected to Marrying His Brother's Widow The Man Who Can Do No Wrong The Boy Who Sung for His Breakfast What the Boy Who Sung for His Breakfast Saw in Rome The Boy-Cardinal The Boy-Emperor The Field of the Cloth of Gold The Men Who Obey Orders Plans That Did Not Come to Pass The Man Who Split the Church in Twain The Queen Who Burned Heretics How Liberty Began in France The Man Who Filled the World With Woe Progress of Liberty in England How the Pope Put Down the Heretics The Queen of the Scots St. Bartholomew How the "Beggars" Fought for Their Rights Why the Queen of Scotland Lost Her Head The Retribution That Followed Crime William Brewster and His Friends The Star of Empire The "Half-Moon" Strangers and Pilgrims

Author : Paul Conton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1673548733

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The Price of Liberty by Paul Conton Pdf

Kwesi, a dashing young man, comes of age as his country, Sianga, achieves independence from the British. He is certain of a bright future. As the years pass he watches his dreams crumble even as he serves the very government he blames for the deterioration. Eventually he comes face to face with a terrible decision, one that will affect the entire African continent. "Easy to read, hard to put down." Commonwealth Writers Prize winner.

Author : Amanda Stephens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0448432471

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Freedom at Any Price by Amanda Stephens Pdf

Boston in 1773 is an inhospitable place for the two teenagers whose lives are about to intersect there.

Author : James E. Fleming,Linda C McClain
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674070745

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Ordered Liberty by James E. Fleming,Linda C McClain Pdf

Fleming and McClain defend a civic liberalism that takes seriously not just rights but responsibilities and virtues. Issues taken up include same-sex marriage, reproductive freedom, regulation of civil society and the family, education of children, and clashes between First Amendment freedoms of association and religion and antidiscrimination law.

Author : Barry C. Lynn
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781250240637

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Liberty from All Masters by Barry C. Lynn Pdf

Barry C. Lynn, one of America's preeminent thinkers, provides the clearest statement yet on the nature and magnitude of the political and economic dangers posed by America’s new monopolies in Liberty from All Masters. "Very few thinkers in recent years have done more to shift the debate in Washington than Barry Lynn." —Franklin Foer Americans are obsessed with liberty, mad about liberty. On any day, we can tune into arguments about how much liberty we need to buy a gun or get an abortion, to marry who we want or adopt the gender we feel. We argue endlessly about liberty from regulation and observation by the state, and proudly rebel against the tyranny of course syllabi and Pandora playlists. Redesign the penny today and the motto would read “You ain’t the boss of me.” Yet Americans are only now awakening to what is perhaps the gravest domestic threat to our liberties in a century—in the form of an extreme and fast-growing concentration of economic power. Monopolists today control almost every corner of the American economy. The result is not only lower wages and higher prices, hence a concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the few. The result is also a stripping away of our liberty to work how and where we want, to launch and grow the businesses we want, to create the communities and families and lives we want. The rise of online monopolists such as Google and Amazon—designed to gather our most intimate secrets and use them to manipulate our personal and group actions—is making the problem only far worse fast. Not only have these giant corporations captured the ability to manage how we share news and ideas with one another, they increasingly enjoy the power to shape how we move and play and speak and think.