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