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Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance - Protecting Aborigines across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire (Paperback)
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Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance - Protecting Aborigines across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire (Paperback)
Series: Critical Perspectives on Empire
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How did those responsible for creating Britain's nineteenth-century
settler empire render colonization compatible with humanitarianism?
Avoiding a cynical or celebratory response, 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 British emigrants. The story
challenges the exclusion of officials' humanitarian sensibilities
from colonial history and places the settler colonies within the
larger historical context of Western humanitarianism.
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