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

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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
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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."
Issued also in print.
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In English.
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Cross-cultural studies.
Equality Cross-cultural studies.
Human beings Cross-cultural studies.
HISTORY / World. bisacsh
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The Invention of Humanity : Equality and Cultural Difference in World History /
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
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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
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contents 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
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