Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century : Setting the Precedent / Alexis Heraclides, Ada Dialla.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heraclides, Alexis, author.

Dialla, Anta, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book is a comprehensive presentation of humanitarian intervention in theory and practice during the course of the nineteenth century. Through four case studies, it sheds new light on the international law debate and the political theory on intervention, linking them to ongoing issues, and paying particular attention to the lesser known Russian dimension.The book begins by tracing the genealogy of the idea of humanitarian intervention to the Renaissance, evaluating the Eurocentric gaze of the civilisation-barbarity dichotomy, and elucidates the international legal arguments of both advocates and opponents of intervention, as well as the views of major political theorists. It then goes on to examine four cases as humanitarian interventions: the Greek War of Independence (1821-31), the Lebanon and Syria (1860-61), the Bulgarian atrocities (1876-78), and the U.S. intervention in Cuba (1895-98).

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100128

ISBN:

9780719098598

OCLC:

951710171

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access