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Description: Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance by Alan Lester, Fae Dussart Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description This book reveals the ways in which those responsible for creating Britains nineteenth-century empire sought to make colonization compatible with humanitarianism. Publisher Description How did those responsible for creating Britains 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 Diemens 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. Author Biography Alan Lester is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Sussex. His first book was From Colonization to Democracy: A New Historical Geography of South Africa. It was reviewed as without doubt the best historical geography of South Africa to date. Although his work over the next five years remained centred on southern Africa, it focused on the range of connections between the Cape colonial frontier and other sites of British colonization. With Imperial Networks: Creating Identities in Nineteenth-Century South Africa and Britain, he helped to pioneer the spatial turn in colonial studies. Catherine Hall wrote that the book provides a model which others would do well to follow and John Darwin concluded that it opens up a very promising avenue towards a reinvigorated imperial historiography. Excerpts are included in the New Imperial Histories Reader, Stephen Howe crediting Lester with being the pioneer of a key concept much used in recent new imperial history writing … that of the imperial network. Colonial Lives across the British Empire: Imperial Careering in the Long Nineteenth Century, co-edited with David Lambert, showed how personal trajectories combined with movements of material, capital, commodities and ideas continually to reconfigure colonial and metropolitan places. Antoinette Burton described the book as developing fresh insight and a lot of intellectual energy as well, and it has been further reviewed as demonstrat[ing] what biography at its best can do. Fae Dussart is Adjunct Lecturer in Modern British and Imperial History for the University of North Carolina Study Abroad Program and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sussex. She has published on histories of domestic service in Britain and India, and with Alan Lester on humanitarian and settler discourses in New Zealand and Australia. Details ISBN 1107007836 ISBN-13 9781107007833 Title Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance Author Alan Lester, Fae Dussart Format Hardcover Year 2014 Pages 294 Publisher Cambridge University Press GE_Item_ID:79950438; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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