Contents

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