Zoe Laidlaw (University of Melbourne)

Protecting the Empire's Humanity

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Produktbeschreibung

Laidlaw lays bare the contradictions of mid-nineteenth-century imperial Britain. Missionaries, scientists and imperial officials all claimed an interest in 'protecting' and 'civilizing' indigenous peoples, but this study of Quaker activist Thomas Hodgkin and the Aborigines' Protection Society reveals the fatal flaws in imperial 'humanitarianism'.

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Produktdetails

• Critical Perspectives on Empire
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 706g
• 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.