:Race, Gender, and Rank: Early Modern Ideas of Humanity

Part 1 Race and ethnicity: the posthumous Christianization of the Inca empire in colonial Peru, Jeffrey L. Klaiber the philosophies and black slavery - 1748-1765, Claudine Hunting three approaches to Locke and the slave trade, Wayne Glausser the uses of America in Locke's Second Treatise of Government, Herman Lebovics the American debate on the negro's place in nature, 1780-1815, John C. Greene origins of racial anglo-saxonism in Great Britain before 1850, Reginald Horsman. Part 2 Gender distinctions: the educational ideas of Christine de Pizan, Astrik L. Gabriel Christine de Pizan - the poetess as historian, Nadia Margolis the double standard, Keith Thomas the Englishwoman's sexual civil war - feminist attitudes towards men, women, and marriage 1650-1740, Jerome Nadelhaft Mary Wollstonecraft - sex and spirit in Wollstonecraft and Malthus, G.J. Barker-Benfield. Part 3 Politics and economics of rank: social equalitarianism in a tudor crisis, W. Gordon Zeeveld the puritan ethic and the dignity of labour - hierarhy vs. equality Class Versus Rank - the transformation of 18th century English social terms and theories of production, Steven Wallech the concept of class in French culture prior to the revolution, Dallas L. Clouatre. Part 4 Human nature and compassion: the mime of God - vives on the nature of man, Marcia L. Colish Property and People - political usages of Locke and some contemporaries, Judith Richards, et al charity versus justice in Locke's theory of property, John C. Winfrey irresistable compassion - an aspect of 18th century sympathy and humanitarianism, Norman S. Fiering.