What Price Liberty?

ISBN-10: 0571235948
ISBN-13: 9780571235940
Category: History / Social History
Pages: 461
Language: English
Published: 2009
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Author: Ben Wilson

Description

Historian Ben Wilson here argues that individual liberty will be the defining issue of the 21st century. He contextualises current debates on how to balance liberty with social order, by exploring how civil liberties have been constructed and rethought over four centuries of British, American and European history.

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