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

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

Siep Stuurman

672 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy informative reflective slow-paced
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For much of history, strangers were routinely classified as barbarians and inferiors, seldom as fellow human beings. The notion of a common humanity was counterintuitive and thus had to be invented. Siep Stuurman traces evolving ideas of human equ...

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