A brief history of equality
Record details
- ISBN: 0674273559
- ISBN: 9780674273559
- ISBN: 0674275888
- ISBN: 9780674275881
- ISBN: 0674275896
- ISBN: 9780674275898
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 274 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022.
Content descriptions
General Note: | First published in French as Une brève histoire de l'égalité , Éditions du Seuil, 2021. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Movement toward Equality: The First Milestones -- 2. The Slow Deconcentration of Power and Property -- 3. The Heritage of Slavery and Colonialism -- 4. The Question of Reparations -- 5. Revolution, Status, and Class -- 6. The "Great Redistribution": 1914-1980 -- 7. Democracy, Socialism, and Progressive Taxation -- 8. Real Equality against Discrimination -- 9. Exiting Neocolonialism -- 10. Toward a Democratic, Ecological, and Multicultural Socialism -- Contents in Detail -- Tables and Illustrations -- Index |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed June 3, 2022). |
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Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. History. |