What Price Liberty
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What Price Liberty
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Author : Ben Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2009-06-04
What Price Liberty written by Ben Wilson and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-04 with History categories.
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.
The Price Of Liberty
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Author : Paul Conton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Price Of Liberty written by Paul Conton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Africa, West categories.
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?
The Price Of Liberty
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Author : Rosemary Thomson (Political activist)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
The Price Of Liberty written by Rosemary Thomson (Political activist) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Christian conservatism categories.
The Price Of Liberty
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Author : Claude Andrew Clegg III
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2009-09-11
The Price Of Liberty written by Claude Andrew Clegg III and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-11 with Social Science categories.
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.
The Price Of Liberty
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Author : Alan Reitman
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Release Date : 1968
The Price Of Liberty written by Alan Reitman and has been published by W. W. Norton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with History categories.
Despite our constitutional guarantees of such absolute rights as "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," there are always pressures from certain segments of our society to limit personal freedom, to lessen self-government, to deny equality to all citizens. The civil libertarian--a person who believes that the Constitution is worth preserving and is willing to fight for the ideals it expresses--is active on a multitude of fronts today: freedom of speech and press, censorship, religion, police power, civil rights, democracy within unions, the right of privacy, academic freedom. This book deals with some of the major concerns of civil liberties today. It is not an attempt to make headlines or interpret the headlines; its eight chapters provide background information and lend perspective. The essays, written by men and women who have been active in the American Civil Liberties Union, range widely in theme. Elmer Rice, for example, writes about the stranglehold of censorship.; Michael Harrington examines the problems of democracy within unions; Walter Millis discusses the legacy of the cold war. The opinions they express are their own, and if their perspectives happen to coincide with official policy of the ACLU it is because these authors in many cases helped shape those policies.
Observations On The Nature Of Civil Liberty
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Author : Richard Price
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1776
Observations On The Nature Of Civil Liberty written by Richard Price and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1776 with categories.
Liberty S Apostle Richard Price His Life And Times
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Author : Paul Frame
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2015-03-20
Liberty S Apostle Richard Price His Life And Times written by Paul Frame and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-20 with Philosophy categories.
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.
The Price Of Liberty
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Author : Wayne Whipple
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1910
The Price Of Liberty written by Wayne Whipple and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1910 with Liberty categories.
The Price Of Liberty
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Author : Robert D. Hormats
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2007-05-01
The Price Of Liberty written by Robert D. Hormats and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-01 with History categories.
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.
That Broader Definition Of Liberty
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Author : Brian Stipelman
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2012-10-04
That Broader Definition Of Liberty written by Brian Stipelman and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-04 with Political Science categories.
That Broader Definition of Liberty synthesizes a political theory of the New Deal from the writings of Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Wallace, and Thurman Arnold. The resultant theory highlights the need for the public accountability of private economic power, arguing that when the private economic realm is unable to adequately guarantee the rights of citizens, the state must intervene to protect those rights. The New Deal created a new American social contract that accorded our right to the pursuit of happiness a status equal to liberty, and grounded both in an expansive idea of security as the necessary precondition for the exercise of either. This was connected to a theory of the common good that privileged the consumer as the central category while simultaneously working to limit the worst excesses of consumption-oriented individualism. This theory of ends was supplemented by a theory of practice that focused on ways to institutionalize progressive politics in a conservative institutional context. Brian Stipelman, drawing upon a mixture of history, American political development, and political theory, offers a comprehensive theory of the New Deal, covering both the ends it hoped to achieve and the means it used to achieve them.