The invention of humanity : equality and cultural difference in world history

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal : Stuurman Siep (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : The invention of humanity : equality and cultural difference in world history / Siep Stuurman
Publié : Cambridge, Massachusetts, London : Harvard university press , 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (665 p.)
Sujets :
  • Introduction: How cross-cultural equality became thinkable
  • Visions of a common humanity
  • Religious and philosophical universalisms
  • History, ethnography, and the anthropological turn
  • Thinking across frontiers in medieval Islam
  • The Atlantic frontier and the limits of Christian equality
  • Global equality and inequality in Enlightenment thought
  • Modern equality and scientific racism in the nineteenth century
  • The globalization of equality
  • The age of human rights
  • Epilogue: The future of global equality