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Humanitarian governance and the British antislavery world system / Maeve Ryan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ryan, Maeve, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antislavery movements--Great Britain--Colonies--History.
- Antislavery movements.
- Slavery--Great Britain.
- Slavery.
- Slave trade--Great Britain.
- Slave trade.
- Humanitarian assistance, British--History.
- Humanitarian assistance, British.
- Freed persons--Africa.
- Freed persons.
- Humanitarianism.
- Africa.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (326 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2022]
- Biography/History:
- Maeve Ryan is a senior lecturer in history and grand strategy in the Department of War Studies and co-director of the Centre for Grand Strategy at King's College London.
- Summary:
- How the suppression of the slave trade and the "disposal" of liberated Africans shaped the emergence of modern humanitarianism.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- one “Management Without Responsibility”: The Sierra Leone Connection
- two “With a View to Their Own Welfare”: The Liberated African Department of Sierra Leone
- three Seeking Freedom in a Slave Society: Cape Colony and the British West Indies
- four A Liberated African “Archipelago”
- five Humanitarian Governance in International Antislavery Diplomacy
- six Apprenticeship
- seven Enlistment
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Ryan, Maeve Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System
- ISBN:
- 9780300265606
- OCLC:
- 1302008108
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