Humanitarianism, Empire and Transnationalism, 1760-1995

Trevor Burnard: Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation, Director of the Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull. Joy Damousi: Director of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at Australian Catholic University. Alan Lester: Professor at the University of Sussex. -- .

Introduction: Selective humanity: Three centuries of Anglophone humanitarianism, empire and transnationalism – Trevor Burnard, Joy Damousi and Alan Lester

Part I: Transatlantic humanitarianism, 1760–1838
1 Anthony Benezet: A Short History of Guinea and its impact on early British abolitionism –
Trevor Burnard
2 An incident at the Sun Tavern: Changing the discourse on Indigenous visitors to Georgian Britain – Kate Fullagar
3 Humanity amidst calamity: Humanitarian discourse in New South Wales, 1788–1830 –
Jillian Beard
4 'Nor do they harbour vermin': Material culture approaches to exploring humanitarian exchanges – Amanda B. Moniz
5 The realpolitik of emancipation in the British Empire, 1833–38 – Alan Lester

Part II: Humanitarianism and Indigenous peoples, 1838–c. 1950
6 Humanitarianism in a genocidal age: The tragic story of the Aboriginal prison on Rottnest Island, Western Australia, 1838–1903 – Ann Curthoys
7 From humanitarianism to humane governance: Aboriginal slavery and white Australia – Amanda Nettelbeck
8 Humanitarian priorities and West African agency in the British Empire – Bronwen Everill
9 The origins of exemption: The individual exception in the discourse of humanitarianism – Katherine Ellinghaus

Part III: A new international order, 1918–95
10 Gender, personalities and the politics of humanitarianism: Nursing leaders of the League of Red Cross Societies between the wars – Melanie Oppenheimer
11 ‘Springs of love’: Sentiment and affect in the development of mid-twentieth-century volunteering – Agnieszka Sobocinska
12 Humanitarian activism during the Vietnam War: The case of Rosemary Taylor, Elaine Moir and Margaret Moses – Joy Damousi
13 Humanitarianism in the age of human rights: Amnesty International in Australia – Jon Piccini
14 Palliation, poverty and child welfare: Human rights and humanitarianism in the 1980s – Roland Burke

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