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Britannia´s Embrace: Modern Humanitarianism and the Imperial Origins of Refugee Relief
Caroline Shaw
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Description for Britannia´s Embrace: Modern Humanitarianism and the Imperial Origins of Refugee Relief
Hardback. Britannia's Embrace revises current understandings about the origins of refuge, which have focused exclusively on the period post-1914. It argues that the responsibility to protect persecuted foreigners developed in nineteenth-century Britain through a popular movement that equated refugee relief with what it meant to be liberal on a global stage. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 245 x 26. Weight in Grams: 602.
On the eve of the American Revolution, the refugee was, according to British tradition, a Protestant who sought shelter from continental persecution. By the turn of the twentieth century, however, British refuge would be celebrated internationally as being open to all persecuted foreigners. Britain had become a haven for fugitives as diverse as Karl Marx and Louis Napoleon, Simon Bolivar and Frederick Douglass. How and why did the refugee category expand? How, in a period when no law forbade foreigners entry to Britain, did the refugee emerge as a category for humanitarian and political action? Why did the plight ... Read more
On the eve of the American Revolution, the refugee was, according to British tradition, a Protestant who sought shelter from continental persecution. By the turn of the twentieth century, however, British refuge would be celebrated internationally as being open to all persecuted foreigners. Britain had become a haven for fugitives as diverse as Karl Marx and Louis Napoleon, Simon Bolivar and Frederick Douglass. How and why did the refugee category expand? How, in a period when no law forbade foreigners entry to Britain, did the refugee emerge as a category for humanitarian and political action? Why did the plight ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
601g
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190200985
SKU
V9780190200985
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About Caroline Shaw
Caroline Shaw is Assistant Professor of History at Bates College.
Reviews for Britannia´s Embrace: Modern Humanitarianism and the Imperial Origins of Refugee Relief
Caroline Shaw has produced an excellent, well-written history of nineteenth-century British refugee humanitarianism. Effectively and succinctly argued, its chief strength lies in the clarity with which it demonstrates the tensions between liberal British ideals and the complex realities of humanitarian crisis. Britannia's Embrace is both highly relevant to the issues of today's refugee crisis and a welcome contribution to the ... Read more