British Humanitarianism and the Congo Reform Movement, 1896-1913

ISBN-13: 9781138494510 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 320 str.

Pavlakis, Dr. Dean

Opis

Examining key factors in the successes and failures of a pivotal movement that aided the colonized people of the Congo and broadened the idea of human rights, this book provides a valuable update to scholarship on the history of humanitarianism in Africa. The Congo Reform movement built on the institutional experience of overseas humanitarianism, the energy of evangelical political involvement, and innovations in racial, imperial, and nationalist discourse to create political energy. Often portrayed as the efforts of a few key people, especially E.D. Morel, this book demonstrates that the movement increasingly manifested itself as an institutionalized campaign that could pursue its goals even in the absence of its hardworking founder.

Spis treści

Preface; Context and questions ; Origins; Organizing Congo reform; Adherents; Alliances; The Internationalist Congo Reform Movement; Contested representation; Politicians and bureaucrats: the art of the possible; Effectiveness; Conclusion; Appendices; Select bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Dean Pavlakis is Assistant Professor of Modern European and African History at Carroll College in Helena, Montana. He has published on the Congo reform movement and a philanthropy-related sexual abuse scandal. His current research interests include overseas humanitarianism, particularly in a colonial setting.