Empire of humanity : a history of humanitarianism /

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Author / Creator:Barnett, Michael N., 1960-
Imprint:Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Description:xi, 296 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8369667
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ISBN:9780801447136 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801447135 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Crooked Timber of Humanitarianism
  • 1. Co-Dependence: Humanitarianism and the World
  • Part I. The Age of Imperial Humanitarianism
  • 2. The Humanitarian Big Bang
  • 3. Saving Slaves, Sinners, Savages, and Societies
  • 4. Saving Soldiers and Civilians during War
  • Part II. The Age of Neo-Humanitarianism
  • 5. The New International
  • 6. Neo-Humanitarianism
  • 7. Humanitarianism during Wartime
  • Part III. The Age of Liberal Humanitarianism
  • 8. It's a Humanitarian's World
  • 9. Armed for Humanity
  • 10. Politics and Anti-Politics, or the New Paternalism
  • Conclusion: Empire of Humanity
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index