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Synopsis
Freedom to Fiefdom Volume Two (The Rise of the Global Predator) presents a wide background for the determination of European history, of Western Democracies, and of global welfare (or its absence) today that is a consequence of the human invention of the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; and to a slightly lesser degree, other religious and socio-political ideologies and fantasies.The nature of Western Democracy is also a consequence of Europe's tribal, and later imperial contact with the rest of the world over a period that may have begun in the most remote antiquity, and that continues to the present day.Most of the world's older empires are described, including: Chinese, Greek, Roman, Jewish, Islamic, Asian Steppe, Frankish and Holy Roman, to mention just a few, and the often common weaknesses that made them all susceptible to similar fates are identified. More recent empires such as the Ottomans, Russians and Americans, all of which typify territorial and ideological aggrandisement are covered and, for perspective, the entirety of geological history is briefly and succinctly presented with the aim of giving some sense of phenomenological scale to the five hypotheses presented in Volume One, and to overall human history from which those hypotheses are derived.Both volumes one and two are richly supported by maps, tables, and time-lines. This monochrome paperback version consists of only small annotations to the 1st edition hardback full colour version.
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