The Invention of Humanity

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The Invention of Humanity is written by Siep Stuurman and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674977513 (ISBN 10) and 9780674977518 (ISBN 13).

For much of history, strangers were seen as barbarians, seldom as fellow human beings. The notion of common humanity had to be invented. Drawing on global thinkers, Siep Stuurman traces ideas of equality and difference across continents and civilizations, from antiquity to present-day debates about human rights and the “clash of civilizations.”