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

by Siep Stuurman

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 equality and difference across continents and civilizations from ancient times to the present.

Despite humans' deeply ingrained bias against strangers, migration and cultural blending have shaped human...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674971965
• ISBN13: 9780674971967
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.1" x 9.4"