5. The Atlantic Frontier and the Limits of Christian Equality

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction: How Cross-Cultural Equality Became Thinkable 1
4. 1. Visions of a Common Humanity 31
5. 2. Religious and Philosophical Universalisms 67
6. 3. History, Ethnography, and the Anthropological Turn 115
7. 4. Thinking across Frontiers in Medieval Islam 156
8. 5. The Atlantic Frontier and the Limits of Christian Equality 200
9. 6. Global Equality and Inequality in Enlightenment Thought 258
10. 7. Modern Equality and Scientific Racism in the Nineteenth Century 346
11. 8. The Globalization of Equality 419
12. 9. The Age of Human Rights 486
13. Epilogue: The Future of Global Equality 550
14. Notes 581
15. Acknowledgments 647
16. Index 651