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In Africa and Asia, the conceptualization of freedom for individuals and societies has been heavily influenced by the translation of specific European or American ideas of freedom into new political and social contexts. This volume represents a pioneering preliminary assessment of some of the causes and consequences of the process.

This book examines the many different ways in which women achieved public standing and exercised political power in England from the middle of the 18th century to the present. It shows how rank, property, and inheritance could confer de facto power on privileged women who overawed enfranchised men of lower social standing.

In the aftermath of the French Revolution, "freedom" came to have a host of meanings. This volume examines these contested visions of freedom both inside and outside of revolutionary situations in the nineteenth century, as each author explores and interprets the development of nineteenth-century political culture in a particular national context.