Table of Contents:
  • Itineraries of ideas of freedom in Africa : precolonial to postcolonial / Crawford Young
  • African states and the search for freedom / William J. Foltz
  • Developmentalism, revolution, and freedom in the Arab East : the cases of Egypt, Syria, and Iraq / James L. Gelvin
  • Ideas of freedom in modern India / Sudipta Kaviraj
  • Freedom in Burma and Thailand : inside or outside the state? / Robert H. Taylor
  • Reverberations of freedom in the Philippines and Vietnam / Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet
  • Japan : state, society, and collective goods versus the individual / Sheldon Garon
  • Redefinitions of freedom in China / Andrew J. Nathan.