Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance: Protecting Aborigines Across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire by Alan Lester, Fae Dussart

Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance: Protecting Aborigines Across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire

Critical Perspectives on Empire

Alan Lester, Fae Dussart

294 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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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 offici...

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