Part I. Historical Perspectives. Chapter 1: Equality Deferred -- Chapter 2: Equality and Diversity in the Late Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey -- Chapter 3: The Social Practice of (In)equality in Nazi Germany -- Chapter 4: Social Inequality and the...
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Part I. Historical Perspectives. Chapter 1: Equality Deferred -- Chapter 2: Equality and Diversity in the Late Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey -- Chapter 3: The Social Practice of (In)equality in Nazi Germany -- Chapter 4: Social Inequality and the United States Army -- Chapter 5: Civil War Pension Policy -- Chapter 6: Selecting a Military Court-Martial Panel -- Chapter 7: United Nations Peace Missions and Protection of Civilians -- Part II. Theological Perspectives. Chapter 8: Ultimately Equal and Relatively Complicated -- Chapter 9: The Rabbinic Meritocracy and Its Discontents -- Chapter 10: Equality in Paul of Tarsus--More and Less -- Chapter 11: The Perilous Promise of Equality -- Chapter 12: Gandhi, Krishna, and Caste: Inequality more or less -- Part III. Philosophical Perspectives. Chapter 13: Men of Fortitude -- Chapter 14: Minding Gibbon's Manners -- Chapter 15: A Kantian Approach to Recognizing Privilege -- Chapter 16: Inequality in Skepticism. "The chapters in Equality: More or Less represent the work of scholars at Bard College and West Point. Their research falls within the areas of history, religion, legal theory, social science, ethics, and philosophy. The regions covered include the Middle and Far East, Europe, and America; the time periods studied are both contemporary and historical. Each essay is a well-detailed exploration that assumes the reader has no prior acquaintance with the topic. Together, the studies reveal both conflicting standards of equality and patterns of pernicious inequality. In an ideal world, equality and inequality among humans would vary in acceptable proportion, with an increase of one ensuring decrease of the other. Unfortunately, as the studies illustrate, any such expectation of progress in the real world is almost routinely thwarted." -- Back cover
