Freedom: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture
Orlando Patterson
496 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0465025358
ISBN13:
Language: English
Publish: July 17, 1991
American HistoryAnthropologyCulturalHistoryNonfictionPhilosophyPoliticsRaceResearchSociology
Argues that the concept of personal freedom developed as it did only in the Western world because of the role of women, along with slaves and foreigners, as outsiders, but that the Christian concept of spiritual freedom led to the justification of social hierarchies