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The origins of global humanitarianism : religion, empires, and advocacy / Peter Stamatov, Yale University

Author:
Stamatov, Peter, 1967-
Published:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2013]
Physical Description:
xii, 233 pages ; 24 cm.

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Machine generated contents note: History's Tentacles -- History in the Present -- The Institution of Long-Distance Advocacy -- Imperial Tensions and Religious Conflict -- The Religious Logic of Radicalization -- 1.Caribbean Beginnings, 1511-1520 -- Predatory Imperialism and Its Religious Critics -- Hispaniola and the Beginnings of Exploitative Overseas Imperialism -- A Third Imperial Network -- The Endurance of Protest -- Enter Las Casas -- Reform -- The End of the First Wave of Protests and Reforms -- 2.Pro-Indigenist Advocacy in the Iberian Atlantic -- The Resumption of Advocacy in an Expanding Empire -- Contentious Indigenism in a Contentious Imperial State -- Theological Debates and Political Projects -- The Consolidation of Protest and the Consolidation of the State -- The Institutionalization of a Political Practice -- 3.Religious Radicalization and Early Antislavery -- The New Atlantic Slavery and the Hardening Moral Duality of Imperialism -- Catholic Confrontations with Slavery -- Another Caribbean Beginning -- Conclusion -- 4.Quaker Reformers and the Politicization of Antislavery -- Quaker Reform and Divestment from Slavery -- Imperial Conflicts -- A New Quaker Activism -- The Reformers' Evolving Politics -- A New Radicalism in the Imperial Context -- 5.Forging an Abolitionist Network -- The Initial Growth -- Prerevolutionary Synergies and Tensions -- Imperial Ruptures -- Mobilization Crosses the Atlantic -- The Dynamics of Network Expansion -- 6.The Emergence of a New Model -- The New British Abolitionism -- American Decline -- French Turbulence -- The London Model -- The Distal Effects of Religious Radicalization -- Conclusion -- Legacies -- Historical Continuities, Change, and Modernity.
Summary:
"Whether lauded and encouraged or criticized and maligned, action in solidarity with culturally and geographically distant strangers has been an integral part of European modernity. Traversing the complex political landscape of early modern European empires, this book locates the historical origins of modern global humanitarianism in the recurrent conflict over the ethical treatment of non-Europeans that pitted religious reformers against secular imperial networks. Since the sixteenth-century beginnings of European expansion overseas and in marked opposition to the exploitative logic of predatory imperialism, these reformers - members of Catholic orders and, later, Quakers and other reformist Protestants - developed an ideology and a political practice in defense of the rights and interests of distant "others." They also increasingly made the question of imperial injustice relevant to growing "domestic" publics in Europe. A distinctive institutional model of long-distance advocacy crystallized out of these persistent struggles, becoming the standard weapon of transnational activists"--
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ISBN:
9781107021730 (hardback)
1107021731 (hardback)
1139128949
9781139128940
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages191-223) and index.
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