Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea

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Title: Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea
Author: Darrin M. McMahon
Publisher: Ithaka / Bonnier Books Ltd, 2025
Format: Paperback
Language: English
ISBN-13: 9781804186855

Equality by Darrin M. McMahon is a major intellectual history of one of the most powerful and contested ideas in human life. The book traces how equality has been imagined, defended, feared, rejected, and redefined from early human societies through religion, ancient politics, revolution, modern democracy, socialism, fascism, and contemporary debates.

McMahon explores why equality remains so difficult to define. People have fought for it in law, politics, economics, race, gender, nationality, and human rights, yet societies have also resisted it, limited it, and disagreed fiercely over who deserves it and how far it should go.

This paperback is a strong choice for readers interested in history, political philosophy, social justice, inequality, human rights, democracy, and modern public debate. It offers a broad, historically grounded way to think about one of the central questions of our age.