How we invented freedom & why it matters - HannanThis book tells the story of freedom and explains how it is a uniquely British, rather than Western, invention. It shows how the inhabitants of a damp island at the western tip of the Eurasian landmass stumbled upon the extraordinary idea that the state was the servant, and not the master, of the individual. This revolutionary concept created security of property and contract which, in turn, led to industrialization and modern capitalism. For the