The Idea of Freedom in Asia and Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Idea of Freedom in Asia and Africa write by Robert H. Taylor. This book was released on 2002. The Idea of Freedom in Asia and Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Universal ideas of freedom are to be found throughout the world’s diverse intellectual and political traditions, spread by the global trade in ideas which has grown exponentially during the past 200 years. 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 this process. Africa and Asia have too often been portrayed in Western accounts as having no historical purchase on ideas of freedom, but the chapters in this volume reveal that these societies have long had their own ideas about the proper degree of individual autonomy relative to the authority exercised by the state and other institutions. The topics covered here are ideas of freedom in Africa from the slave trade era through colonialism to the nationalism that followed World War II (Crawford Young); the many forms of freedom in the states of sub-Saharan Africa since independence (William J. Foltz); why certain concepts of freedom have been empowered and others not in the Arab states of Egypt, Syria, and Iraq (James L. Gelvin); the differing ideas of freedom in modern India for individuals and for specific social groups (Sudipta Kaviraj); the contrasting fates of ideas of freedom in Burma and Thailand (Robert H. Taylor); political struggles in the Philippines and Vietnam about the meaning and practice of freedom (Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet); the evolution of the idea of freedom in Japan with respect to freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of association, and the liberation of such unfree persons as prostitutes (Sheldon Garon); and the ways in which Chinese conceptions of political freedom resemble or depart from modern Western conceptions (Andrew J. Nathan).
Asian Freedoms
Asian Freedoms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Asian Freedoms write by David Kelly. This book was released on 1998-06-13. Asian Freedoms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many Westerners assume that freedom has been bypassed in Asia, given the often brutal suppression of demands for its extension in some Asian countries, and its more tentative status in others where desire for social order is dominant. This book argues that Western ideas of freedom have become widely accepted in Asia, and the key determinant for measuring a range of legal, ethical and political practices. The book finds that modern conceptions of freedom throughout Asia are rooted in local histories, institutions and practices, becoming adapted to local contexts. The book avoids cultural relativism and blanket generalisations, but does find a number of common ideas relating to freedom across the region. A prestigious group of contributors explores freedom from historical, religious, political and ideological perspectives, acknowledging the many variations in the theme of human liberation.
The Afro-Asian States and Their Problems
The Afro-Asian States and Their Problems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Afro-Asian States and Their Problems write by K. M. Panikkar. This book was released on 2010-11-26. The Afro-Asian States and Their Problems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This reissue of Sandar Panikkar’s 1959 book is based upon a series of lectures given at the Institut d’Etude de Development Economique et Social, which spotlights the problems faced by the multitude of African and Asian states which achieved independence between 1945 and 1957. From Asia, the author discusses the plight of India, Pakistan, Burma, Indonesia, Ceylon, Vietnam, Cambodia, laos, Syria and Lebanon whilst in Africa he assesses the independence of the Sudan, Tunisia, Morroco and Ghana. The problems faced by these countries have many similarities, not least the need to develop systems of political organisation, administrative services necessary for a modern government and the need to completely reorganise their economy.
The Fifth Freedom is Our Weapon
The Fifth Freedom is Our Weapon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fifth Freedom is Our Weapon write by Soekarno. This book was released on 1964. The Fifth Freedom is Our Weapon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Trading Freedom
Trading Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trading Freedom write by Dael A. Norwood. This book was released on 2022-01-18. Trading Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introduction: America's Business with China -- Founding a Free, Trading Republic -- The Paradox of a Pacific Policy -- Troubled Waters -- Sovereign Rights, or America's First Opium Problem -- The Empire's New Roads -- This Slave Trade of the Nineteenth Century -- A Propped-Open Door -- Death of a Trade, Birth of a Market.
