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Liberty and Power

A Reader
  • ISBN-13: 9781944424541
  • Publisher: CATO INSTITUTE
    Imprint: CATO INSTITUTE
  • Edited by Anthony Comegna
  • Price: AUD $26.99
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  • Local release date: 08/05/2018
  • Format: Paperback 250 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History [HB]Social & political philosophy [HPS]
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Liberty and Power takes readers through a documentary tour of the timeless and fundamental social conflict between individuals seeking liberty from external control and those seeking power over others. With medieval law codes, Early Modern corporate charters, narrative accounts from pirates, filibusters, and revolutionaries, and cultural products like popular literature and paintings, this volume introduces the classical liberal theory of history. To liberal thinkers--great and humble alike--the social use of force necessarily divides the population into warring factions and produces disruptive change. History, then, is a train of errors in need of moral and intellectual correction.
Anthony Comegna is the Assistant Editor for Intellectual History at Libertarianism.org. He received his M.A. (2012) and Ph.D. (2016) in history from the University of Pittsburgh, where he specialized in early American, intellectual, and Atlantic history. For the Cato Institute and Libertarianism.org, he produces regular historical content, columns, and scripts for the "Classics of Liberty" podcast.
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