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The Death of Communal Liberty: A History of Freedom in a Swiss Mountain Canton
By (Author) Benjamin R. Barber
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Politics and government
307.7209494
Paperback
320
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
425g
Switzerland today is faced with a profound dilemma--its village life is dying, a casualty of the collision between communal norms and the need for national survival in an industrial, urbanizing world. Benjamin Barber traces the origins and evolution of communal liberty in the group of alpine villages that make up modern Canton Graubunden, and recre