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

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

Title remainder

equality and cultural difference in world history

Statement of responsibility

Siep Stuurman

Creator

• Stuurman, Siep

Author

• Stuurman, Siep

Subject

• Cross-cultural studies
• Equality
• Equality -- Cross-cultural studies
• Cross-cultural studies
• Human beings -- Cross-cultural studies
• Human beings
• trueCross-cultural studies

Genre

• trueCross-cultural studies

Language

eng

Summary

The Invention of Humanity offers a global intellectual history of thinking about common humanity, cross-cultural equality, and cultural difference. The time span runs from Antiquity to the present. The book traces the history of common humanity, cross-cultural equality and self-critical inversions of the cross-cultural gaze, from Homer and Confucius, Greek, Chinese, and Roman historians, Islamic thinkers in the Medieval world, the polemics occasioned by the Spanish conquests in America, Enlightenment critiques of colonialism, the French and Haitian revolutions, the nineteenth and twentieth-century debates about slavery, anti-colonialism, and the color line, to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the "Clash of Civilizations."--

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MH/DLC

Dewey number

305

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maps

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography