{"product_id":"inventing-freedom-daniel-hannan-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\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Hannan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 006223174X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062231741\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Broadside Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/02\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\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":"Paperback","offer_id":43988788674815,"sku":"9780062231741","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_004f4695-6fe8-4693-a1e6-16e48c6d8457.jpg?v=1683296399","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inventing-freedom-daniel-hannan-9780062231741","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}