The Idea of Freedom in Asia and Africa

Edited by Robert H. Taylor
Sta nf ord Univers ity P res s
Sta nf ord, C a lif ornia
2002

Contents
xv
Contributors
Introduction 1
Robert H. Taylor
1. Itineraries of Ideas of Freedom in Africa: Precolonial
to Postcolonial 9
Crawford Young
2. African States and the Search for Freedom 40
William J. Foltz
3. Developmentalism, Revolution, and Freedom in the
Arab East: The Cases of Egypt, Syria, and Iraq 62
James L. Gelvin
4. Ideas of Freedom in Modern India 97
Sudipta Kaviraj
5. Freedom in Burma and Thailand: Inside or Outside
the State? 143
Robert H. Taylor
6. Reverberations of Freedom in the Philippines and
Vietnam 182
Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet
7. Japan: State, Society, and Collective Goods versus
the Individual 214
Sheldon Garon
8. Redefinitions of Freedom in China 248
Andrew J. Nathan
275
Notes
317
Index



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