Visions of Humanity: Historical Cultural Practices since 1850

CONTENTS\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction. Visions of Humanity: Actors, Culture, Practices\nChapter 1 The Human in Human Rights\nPart I. Objects\nChapter 2 Hearts, Minds, and Skulls: The International Debate on the Nature of Humanity in the Mid-Nineteenth Century\nChapter 3 In Search of Biblical Mesopotamia: Visions of Humanity in US Archaeological Excavations in Iraq, 1880–1910\nPart II. Work\nChapter 4 Tensions of “Humanity”: Jewish Philanthropy and Refugee Crises in Eastern Europe, 1881–1914\nChapter 5 “The Whole Organism of Humanity”: The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom’s Campaign for Women’s Rights as Universal Rights, c. 1919\nChapter 6 “A New Humanity” for the Poor: Liberation Theology and Visions of Revolutionary Justice in 1960s Guatemala\nChapter 7 Engineering Empathy: Humanity, Culture, and the Battle against Apartheid in South Africa, 1948–1994\nPart III. Sounds\nChapter 8 Choreographing Humanity in the 1960s: Maurice Béjart and the Symphony No. 9\nChapter 9 Musical Humanism: Yehudi Menuhin and UNESCO’s International Music Council, 1969–1975\nChapter 10 “We Are the World”: Visions of Humanity in 1980s Charity Songs\nAfterword. Languages of Common Humanity\nIndex