Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One. Inequality Regimes in History
6. 1. Ternary Societies: Trifunctional Inequality 51
7. 2. European Societies of Orders: Power and Property 65
8. 3. The Invention of Ownership Societies 99
9. 4. Ownership Societies: The Case of France 126
10. 5. Ownership Societies: European Trajectories 156
11. Part Two. Slave and Colonial Societies
12. 6. Slave Societies: Extreme Inequality 203
13. 7. Colonial Societies: Diversity and Domination 252
14. 8. Ternary Societies and Colonialism: The Case of India 304
15. 9. Ternary Societies and Colonialism: Eurasian Trajectories 362
16. Part Three. The Great Transformation of the Twentieth Century
17. 10. The Crisis of Ownership Societies 415
18. 11. Social-Democratic Societies: Incomplete Equality 486
19. 12. Communist and Postcommunist Societies 578
20. 13. Hypercapitalism: Between Modernity and Archaism 648
21. Part Four. Rethinking the Dimensions of Political Conflict
22. 14. Borders and Property: The Construction of Equality 719
23. 15. Brahmin Left: New Euro-American Cleavages 807
24. 16. Social Nativism: The Postcolonial Identitarian Trap 862
25. 17. Elements for a Participatory Socialism for the Twenty-First Century 966
26. Conclusion 1035
27. Glossary 1043
28. Contents in Detail 1045
29. Tables and Illustrations 1058
30. Index 1065