Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance
Protecting Aborigines across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire
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Part of Critical Perspectives on Empire
- Authors:
- Alan Lester, University of Sussex
- Fae Dussart, University of Sussex
- Date Published: December 2016
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316635285
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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.
Read more- Integrates colonial history with the history of Western humanitarianism
- Offers a transnational history of the settler colonies from Australia and New Zealand to India, the Cape Colony and British Honduras
- Traces the lives of the colonial governors who forged the empire
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'Specialists and post-graduate students will find this monograph to be both a compelling and intellectually stimulating history of colonial humanitarianism as well as an important dimension of colonial governmentality and the 'civilizing' mission of the British Empire.' Richard Batten, Imperial and Global Forum (imperialglobalexeter.com)
See more reviews'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
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- Date Published: December 2016
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316635285
- length: 294 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 155 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.43kg
- contains: 4 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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