Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance: Protecting Aborigines Across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire

ISBN-13: 9781316635285 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 294 str.

Alan Lester; Fae Dussart

Opis

This book reveals the ways in which those responsible for creating Britain's nineteenth-century empire sought to make colonization compatible with humanitarianism.

Recenzje

'Then as now, humanitarianism often served the needs of its benefactors better than its receivers. Lester and Dussart's complex, nuanced, and sympathetic account does much to illuminate the process by which that happened.' Aidan Forth, Victorian Studies

Spis treści

1. Colonization and humanitarianism: histories, geographies and biographies; 2. The genesis of humanitarian governance: George Arthur and the transition from amelioration to protection; 3. Colonization and protection: an experiment orchestrated in London; 4. Humane colonization in practice: the Port Phillip District Protectorate of Aborigines; 5. The New Zealand Protectorate of Aborigines; 6. Humanitarian governance in a settler empire.