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Freedom: An Unruly History by Annelien de Dijn
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Freedom: An Unruly History by Annelien de Dijn

By Timothy Sandefur

Jan 14, 2021
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Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020

426 pp., $35 (hardcover)

Books on the history of freedom are surprisingly scarce. The 19th-century scholar Lord Acton never finished his projected History of Liberty; and Orlando Patterson, who published Freedom: Volume 1 in 1991, abandoned the project before releasing volume 2. Herbert Muller publishedthreebo…

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