Add to ORKGHow did those responsible for creating Britain’s nineteenth century settler empire render colonization compatible with humanitarianism? Avoiding both cynical and celebratory answers, this book takes seriously the humane disposition of colonial officials, examining the relationship between humanitarian governance and Empire. The story of ‘humane’ colonial governance connects projects of emancipation, amelioration, conciliation, protection and development in sites ranging from British Honduras through Van Diemen’s Land and New South Wales, New Zealand and Canada, to India. It is seen in the lives of governors like George Arthur and George Grey, whose careers saw the violent and destructive colonization of Indigenous peoples at the hands of Br...
This article provides an introductory overview of themes raised in this special edition of the Jour...
In the early decades of the 19th century, Indigenous Australians suffered devastating losses at the ...
The rise and fall of humanist imperial policy across Britain’s nineteenth-century empire has receive...
How did those responsible for creating Britain's nineteenth-century settler empire render colonizati...
international principle that emerged out of a United Nations hamstrung in the face of violations of ...
During the early nineteenth century a number of seemingly antithetical developments shaped the Briti...
[Extract] Recent years have seen a revival of historical interest in Aboriginal protection as a conc...
Humanitarianism and violence have traditionally been understood as polarised states, one serving as ...
“Humanitarian Governance in Colonial New Zealand” focuses on a landmark intervention, Britain’s 1840...
While New Zealand historians have sometimes been influenced by the new imperial history, this increa...
This is the first book to examine the shifting relationship between humanitarianism and the expansio...
The British Empire covered three centuries, five continents and one-quarter of the world’s populatio...
Midgley, James, and David Piachaud, eds.. Colonialism and Welfare: Social Policy and the British Imp...
The concept of protective governance that shaped British colonial policy towards indigenous people f...
In the early decades of the 19th century, Indigenous Australians suffered devastating losses at the...
This article provides an introductory overview of themes raised in this special edition of the Jour...
In the early decades of the 19th century, Indigenous Australians suffered devastating losses at the ...
The rise and fall of humanist imperial policy across Britain’s nineteenth-century empire has receive...
How did those responsible for creating Britain's nineteenth-century settler empire render colonizati...
international principle that emerged out of a United Nations hamstrung in the face of violations of ...
During the early nineteenth century a number of seemingly antithetical developments shaped the Briti...
[Extract] Recent years have seen a revival of historical interest in Aboriginal protection as a conc...
Humanitarianism and violence have traditionally been understood as polarised states, one serving as ...
“Humanitarian Governance in Colonial New Zealand” focuses on a landmark intervention, Britain’s 1840...
While New Zealand historians have sometimes been influenced by the new imperial history, this increa...
This is the first book to examine the shifting relationship between humanitarianism and the expansio...
The British Empire covered three centuries, five continents and one-quarter of the world’s populatio...
Midgley, James, and David Piachaud, eds.. Colonialism and Welfare: Social Policy and the British Imp...
The concept of protective governance that shaped British colonial policy towards indigenous people f...
In the early decades of the 19th century, Indigenous Australians suffered devastating losses at the...
This article provides an introductory overview of themes raised in this special edition of the Jour...
In the early decades of the 19th century, Indigenous Australians suffered devastating losses at the ...
The rise and fall of humanist imperial policy across Britain’s nineteenth-century empire has receive...