The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life
#3257 of 3,809 books · #1023 in History
Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize (2025).
A history of the rise of personal choice in the modern world and how it became equated with freedom. Taking readers from the seventeenth century to today, Rosenfeld describes how the early modern world witnessed the simultaneous rise of shopping as an activity and religious freedom as a matter of being able to pick one's convictions.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- ISBN-13
- 9780691164717
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Awards
- Cundill History PrizeShortlisted(2025)
Other awarded books from Sophia Rosenfeld
- Common Sense: A Political History (2011)1 win · 5 score
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