Who Else Opposed Monarchy in 1776?

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In this lecture marking America at 250, Stanford historian Priya Satia will examine alternative forms of republicanism prevalent in the 18th-century world that were eclipsed by colonial conquest. Erasure of these forms from popular memory has fueled myths about the exclusively European origins of the concept of freedom and its necessarily individualistic character. Satia will explore forms of British and American republicanism and their engagement with South Asian, Middle Eastern, and Indigenous American republican ideas.

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