Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One. Inequality Regimes in History
1.
Ternary Societies:
Trifunctional Inequality
2.
European Societies of Orders:
Power and Property
3.
The Invention of Ownership Societies
4.
Ownership Societies:
The Case of France
5.
Ownership Societies:
European Trajectories
Part Two. Slave and Colonial Societies
6.
Slave Societies:
Extreme Inequality
7.
Colonial Societies:
Diversity and Domination
8.
Ternary Societies and Colonialism:
The Case of India
9.
Ternary Societies and Colonialism:
Eurasian Trajectorie
Part Three. The Great Transformation of the Twentieth Century
10.
The Crisis of Ownership Societies
11.
Social-Democratic Societies:
Incomplete Equality
12.
Communist and Postcommunist Societies
13.
Hypercapitalism:
Between Modernity and Archaism
Part Four. Rethinking the Dimensions of Political Conflict
14.
Borders and Property:
The Construction of Equality
15.
Brahmin Left:
New Euro-American Cleavages
16.
Social Nativism:
The Postcolonial Identitarian Trap
17.
Elements for a Participatory Socialism for the Twenty-First Century
Conclusion
Glossary
Contents in Detail
List of Tables and Illustrations
Index