Damousi / Burnard / Lester Humanitarianism, empire and transnationalism, 1760-1995

Selective humanity in the Anglophone world
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5956-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, Band 198, 312 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Imperialism

Leading experts in Anglophone humanitarianism across some three hundred examine the relationship between humanitarianism, empire, postcolonialism, transnational and global human rights in and beyond the British World.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Damousi, Joy

Burnard, Trevor

Lester, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Geographie, Landkarten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Selective humanity: Three centuries of Anglophone humanitarianism, empire and transnationalism – Trevor Burnard, Joy Damousi and Alan Lester

Part I: Transatlantic humanitarianism, 1760–1838
1 Anthony Benezet: A Short History of Guinea and its impact on early British abolitionism –
Trevor Burnard
2 An incident at the Sun Tavern: Changing the discourse on Indigenous visitors to Georgian Britain – Kate Fullagar
3 Humanity amidst calamity: Humanitarian discourse in New South Wales, 1788–1830 –
Jillian Beard
4 'Nor do they harbour vermin': Material culture approaches to exploring humanitarian exchanges – Amanda B. Moniz
5 The realpolitik of emancipation in the British Empire, 1833–38 – Alan Lester

Part II: Humanitarianism and Indigenous peoples, 1838–c. 1950
6 Humanitarianism in a genocidal age: The tragic story of the Aboriginal prison on Rottnest Island, Western Australia, 1838–1903 – Ann Curthoys
7 From humanitarianism to humane governance: Aboriginal slavery and white Australia – Amanda Nettelbeck
8 Humanitarian priorities and West African agency in the British Empire – Bronwen Everill
9 The origins of exemption: The individual exception in the discourse of humanitarianism – Katherine Ellinghaus

Part III: A new international order, 1918–95
10 Gender, personalities and the politics of humanitarianism: Nursing leaders of the League of Red Cross Societies between the wars – Melanie Oppenheimer
11 ‘Springs of love’: Sentiment and affect in the development of mid-twentieth-century volunteering – Agnieszka Sobocinska
12 Humanitarian activism during the Vietnam War: The case of Rosemary Taylor, Elaine Moir and Margaret Moses – Joy Damousi
13 Humanitarianism in the age of human rights: Amnesty International in Australia – Jon Piccini
14 Palliation, poverty and child welfare: Human rights and humanitarianism in the 1980s – Roland Burke

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Trevor Burnard: Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation, Director of the Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull. Joy Damousi: Director of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at Australian Catholic University. Alan Lester: Professor at the University of Sussex.