Part I. A Revolution in Rights?: 1. Barbeyrac's intervention. Grotius, Pufendorf, Locke David Grewal; 2. Rights, mercantile capitalism and the bourgeois revolution: the rise of political economy Martti Koskenniemi; 3. Social rights Glauco Schettini and Charles Walton; 4. Rights in Enlightenment theories of rights Céline Spector; 5. Rights, property, and politics: Hume to Hegel Richard Bourke; 6. Antislavery in the age of rights: or, the rights of slaves confront the right to slaves Christopher Leslie Brown; 7. The Enlightenment Constitutionalism and the rights of man Vincenzo Ferrone; 8. Fundamental rights at the American founding Jud Campbell; 9. Declarations of rights Jeremy D. Popkin; 10. The rights of women (or women's rights) Karen Offen; 11. The image of rights in the French Revolution Adam Lebovitz; Part II. Post-Revolutionary Rights: 12. On the nadir of natural rights theory in nineteenth-century Britain Gregory Conti; 13. The 1789 declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen: a civil creed of the French republic? Valentine Zuber; 14. Rights in the thought of Kant, Fichte, and Hegel Frederick Neuhouser; 15. Rights and socialism 1750-1880 Gareth Stedman Jones; 16. Economic liberalism and rights in the nineteenth century David Todd; 17. Human rights during the 1848 revolutions Mike Rapport; Part III. Rights and Empires: 18. Rights and empires: relations of authority Lauren Benton and Jane Burbank; 19. Rights in Late Mughal and Early Colonial India Hasan Zahid Siddiqui; 20. Rights in the Americas Joshua Simon; 21. The free sea: an antislavery of human rights Amy Dru Stanley; 22. Abolition and Imperialism in Africa Bronwen Everill; 23. Rights in Pan-Asian, Pan-Islamic, and Pan-African thought Cemil Aydin; 24. Indigenous rights in settler colonies Saliha Belmessous; 25. Catholicism and rights: politics, economics and, sexuality Udi Greenberg; 26. (Human) Rights Associations (1775-1898) Wolfgang Schmale.