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

Introduction: How cross-cultural equality became thinkable -- Visions of a common humanity -- Religious and philosophical universalisms -- History, ethnography, and the anthropological turn -- Thinking across frontiers in medieval Islam -- The Atlantic frontier and the limits of Christian equality -- Global equality and inequality in Enlightenment thought -- Modern equality and scientific racism in the nineteenth century -- The globalization of equality -- The age of human rights -- Epilogue: The future of global equality