{"product_id":"inventing-freedom-how-the-english-speaking-peoples-made-the-modern-world-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHannan, Daniel:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eDaniel Hannan is a writer and politician. He contributes to several newspapers, including the \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e and the London \u003cem\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e. A former president of the Oxford University Conservative Association, he was elected to the European Parliament in 1999, at the age of 27, and has been twice reelected.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadside Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50513760289042,"sku":"9780062231741","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f9217c17-7b3a-4e99-be7b-24f533e2b3d3.jpg?v=1730966565","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/inventing-freedom-how-the-english-speaking-peoples-made-the-modern-world-9780062231741","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}