COLONIZATION AND THE ORIGINS OF HUMANITARIAN GOVERNANCE by Alan Lester, Fae Dussart ( 9781139022026 )

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Title:

COLONIZATION AND THE ORIGINS OF HUMANITARIAN GOVERNANCE
PROTECTING ABORIGINES ACROSS THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH EMPIRE

By:

Alan Lester, Fae Dussart

Format:

Electronic book text

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ISBN 10:

1139022024

ISBN 13:

9781139022026

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

5 May, 2014

Series:

Critical Perspectives on Empire

Description:

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

Synopsis:

How did those responsible for creating Britain's nineteenth-century settler empire render colonization compatible with humanitarianism? Avoiding a cynical or celebratory response, this book takes seriously the humane disposition of colonial officials, examining the relationship between humanitarian governance and empire. The story of 'humane' colonial governance connects projects of emancipation, amelioration, conciliation, protection and development in sites ranging from British Honduras through Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales, New Zealand and Canada to India. It is seen in the lives of governors like George Arthur and George Grey, whose careers saw the violent and destructive colonization of indigenous peoples at the hands of British emigrants. The story challenges the exclusion of officials' humanitarian sensibilities from colonial history and places the settler colonies within the larger historical context of Western humanitarianism.

Illustrations:

4 b/w illus.

Publication:

Imprint:

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Returns:

Non-returnable

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