Zoë Laidlaw

Protecting the Empire's Humanity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 716g
• ISBN-13: 9781107196322
• ISBN-10: 1107196329
• Artikelnr.: 61403226

Autorenporträt

Zoë Laidlaw is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Colonial Connections 1815-45: Patronage, the Information Revolution and Colonial Government (2005) and co-editor, with Alan Lester, of Indigenous Communities and Settler Colonialism: Land Holding, Loss and Survival in an Interconnected World (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Part I. Mapping Humanitarianism: 2. Indigenous protection at the humanitarian apogee
3. Metropolitan contexts: Thomas Hodgkin, science and medicine
4. Anti-Slavery, colonization and emigration: 'civilizing' West Africa
5. Free trade versus free labour: British India and the West Indies
Part II. Humanitarianism and Settler Colonialism: 6. Making colonization civilizing: the Aborigines' Protection Society
7. Dealing with the devil: systematic colonization in Australasia
8. Conscripts of civilization: North American networks
9. Betrayal in the borderlands: Lesotho and New Zealand
10. Conclusion.