The Invention of Humanity : : Equality and Cultural Difference in World History / / Siep Stuurman.

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• VerfasserIn: Stuurman, Siep,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (672 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Introduction: How Cross-Cultural Equality Became Thinkable --; 1. Visions of a Common Humanity --; 2. Religious and Philosophical Universalisms --; 3. History, Ethnography, and the Anthropological Turn --; 4. Thinking across Frontiers in Medieval Islam --; 5. The Atlantic Frontier and the Limits of Christian Equality --; 6. Global Equality and Inequality in Enlightenment Thought --; 7. Modern Equality and Scientific Racism in the Nineteenth Century --; 8. The Globalization of Equality --; 9. The Age of Human Rights --; Epilogue: The Future of Global Equality --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674977501; 9783110540550; 9783110625264; 9783110547764; 9783110543315
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674977501
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Siep Stuurman.

For much of history, strangers were seen as barbarians, seldom as fellow human beings. The notion of common humanity had to be invented. Drawing on global thinkers, Siep Stuurman traces ideas of equality and difference across continents and civilizations, from antiquity to present-day debates about human rights and the "clash of civilizations."