Humanitarianism, empire and transnationalism, 1760-1995: Selective humanity in the Anglophone world

Front Matter\n	Half title page\n	Series page\n	Title page\n	Copyright page\nContents\nNotes on contributors\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction: Selective humanity: Three centuries of Anglophone humanitarianism, empire and transnationalism\nPart I: Transatlantic humanitarianism, 1760–1838\n	Chapter 1: Anthony Benezet: A Short History of Guineaand its impact on early British abolitionism\n		Benezet’s selective reading\n		Influence on early abolitionism\n		Benezet and Granville Sharp\n		Somerset and xenophobia\n		Concern about hybridity\n		Conclusion\n		Notes\n	Chapter 2: An incident at the Sun Tavern:Changing the discourse on Indigenousvisitors to Georgian Britain\n		Indigenous visitors before 1765\n		Two Mohawks at the Sun Tavern\n		Indigenous arrivals, 1765–1800\n		Indigenous people in Britain into the 1800s\n		Notes\n	Chapter 3: Humanity amidst calamity: Humanitariandiscourse in New South Wales, 1788–1830\n		Humanity in the colony\n		Mixed emotions\n		With or without feeling: the fluidity of humanity\n		Instilling and institutionalising humanity\n		Notes\n	Chapter 4: ‘Nor do they harbour vermin’:Material culture approaches toexploring humanitarian exchanges\n		Material culture analysis and the historiography of philanthropy\n		Charities’ minutes as a source\n		Atlantic world connections at New York Hospital\n		Beds and bedding, patient care and the work of caring\n		The Bible, speech and sound at New York Hospital\n		Conclusion\n		Notes\n	Chapter 5: The realpolitik of emancipation inthe British Empire, 1833–38\n		Emancipation in context\n		Defining emancipation\n		Emancipation and civil rights\n		Emancipation and colonisation\n		Conclusion\n		Notes\nPart II: Humanitarianism and Indigenous peoples,1838–c. 1950\n	Chapter 6: Humanitarianism in a genocidal age: Thetragic story of the Aboriginal prison onRottnest Island, Western Australia, 1838–1903\n		Humanitarians: the first wave, 1832–49\n		What the prison became\n		The prison grows, 1855–83\n		Crisis at the prison, 1883–86\n		Conclusion\n		Notes\n	Chapter 7: From humanitarianism to humane governance:Aboriginal slavery and white Australia\n		Settler humanitarianism and Aboriginal slavery in multiracial Australia\n		Intimate indenture and state intervention\n		Conclusion\n		Notes\n	Chapter 8: Humanitarian priorities and WestAfrican agency in the British Empire\n		West African elites and the ‘model’ of imperial humanitarianism\n		Appeals to British imperial humanitarianism\n		Local humanitarian concerns\n		Mutual aid\n		Conclusion\n		Notes\n	Chapter 9: The origins of exemption: The individualexception in the discourse of humanitarianism\n		The individual exception\n		Humanitarian discourse in exemption policies\n		The legacy of exemption\n		Conclusion\n		Notes\nPart III: A new international order, 1918–95\n	Chapter 10: Gender, personalities and the politicsof humanitarianism: Nursingleaders of the League of Red CrossSocieties between the wars\n		Appointment of Alice Fitzgerald, first Director of Nursing\n		Katherine Olmsted, second Director of Nursing\n		Maynard Carter, third Director of Nursing\n		Conclusion\n		Notes\n	Chapter 11: ‘Springs of love’: Sentiment andaffect in mid-twentieth-centurydevelopment volunteering\n		The rise of development volunteering\n		Empathy and optimism\n		Conclusion\n		Notes\n	Chapter 12: Humanitarian activism during the VietnamWar: The case of Rosemary Taylor,Elaine Moir and Margaret Moses\n		Rosemary Taylor, Elaine Moir and Margaret Moses\n		‘Thief in the night’: humanitarian work in war\n		Contesting humanitarianism: advocacy and activism and their limits\n		Conclusion\n		Notes\n	Chapter 13: Humanitarianism in the age of humanrights: Amnesty International in Australia\n		Humanitarianism and human rights in postwar Australia\n		Amnesty and the challenge of Indigenous injustice\n		Conscription and the limits of conscience\n		Into the 1970s\n		Conclusion\n		Notes\n	Chapter 14: Palliation, poverty and child welfare: Humanrights and humanitarianism in the 1980s\n		Captivated by cruelties: the grim success ofthe Convention Against Torture\n		Growing the right to food: corporeal human rights in another key\n		The consensus of compassionate paternalism:reviving the rights of the child\n		Conclusions\n		Notes\nIndex