Research Catalog

Title

Towards the light : the story of the struggles for liberty and the rights that made the modern West / A.C. Grayling.

Author

Grayling, A. C.

Publication

London : Bloomsbury, 2007.

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Details

Description

336 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

The rights we enjoy in the West today, from the basic right to vote in elections to freedom of conscience, were won in a series of hard-fought struggles over five hundred years. This is the human story A.C. Grayling sets out to tell in his inspirational history of ideas in action, Towards the Light.

Subject

• Geschichte 1500-2000
• Liberty
• Civil rights movements
• Social movements
• Social change
• Civilization, Western
• Civil rights
• Freedom
• Civil Rights
• freedom
• social movements
• civil rights
• Civil rights
• Civil rights movements
• Civilization, Western
• Liberty
• Social change
• Social movements
• Bürgerrecht
• Freiheitsrecht
• Gleichberechtigung
• Meinungsfreiheit
• Menschenrecht
• Sozialer Wandel
• Freiheit
• Westliche Welt

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-324) and index.

Contents

1. Setting the scene -- pt. I. The demand for liberty -- 2. The Reformation and the beginning of modern liberty -- 3. Freeing the mind -- 4. The fight against absolutism -- pt. II. The extension of liberty -- 5. Slaves, workers, women and the struggle for liberty -- 6. The liberty century -- 7. Rights out of wrongs -- 8. The idea of liberty and the verge of betrayal -- App. 1. The Bill of Rights 1689 -- App. 2. The United States Bill of Rights 1791 -- App. 3. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen -- App. 4. The Chartists' 'Six Points' and petition -- App. 5. United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

ISBN

• 9780747583868
• 0747583862

OCLC

• ocn144596361
• 144596361
• SCSB-8804548

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library