The Origins of Global Humanitarianism: Religion, Empires, and AdvocacyCambridge University Press, 23 dic 2013 - 256 páginas Whether lauded and encouraged or criticized and maligned, action in solidarity with culturally and geographically distant strangers has been an integral part of European modernity. Traversing the complex political landscape of early modern European empires, this book locates the historical origins of modern global humanitarianism in the recurrent conflict over the ethical treatment of non-Europeans that pitted religious reformers against secular imperial networks. Since the sixteenth-century beginnings of European expansion overseas and in marked opposition to the exploitative logic of predatory imperialism, these reformers - members of Catholic orders and, later, Quakers and other reformist Protestants - developed an ideology and a political practice in defense of the rights and interests of distant 'others'. They also increasingly made the question of imperial injustice relevant to growing 'domestic' publics in Europe. A distinctive institutional model of long-distance advocacy crystallized out of these persistent struggles, becoming the standard weapon of transnational activists. |
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Caribbean Beginnings 15111520 | 24 |
ProIndigenist Advocacy in the Iberian Atlantic | 45 |
Religious Radicalization and Early Antislavery | 73 |
Quaker Reformers and the Politicization of Antislavery | 97 |
Forging an Abolitionist Network | 125 |
The Emergence of a New Model | 155 |
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Abolition of Slavery abolitionism abolitionist network abuses action activists activities allies Alonso de Maldonado American Anthony Benezet antislavery antislavery project Assembly Atlantic slave trade audiencia authorities Barbados Bartolomé Benezet Britain British Cambridge University Press campaigns Caribbean Casas Casas’s Catholic Christianity Church colonial slavery committed conflict conquest cultural developments distant issues distant strangers Dominicans early emerged Empire encomenderos encomienda engaged enslaved Africans European evangelization exploitation Franciscans French friars Friendly Association Global Granville Sharp Hispaniola History human humanitarian Iberian imperial networks important increasingly Indians Indies indigenist initial institutional model island Jaca labor legislation London long-distance advocacy manumission Mexico mobilization Moirans Negro non-Europeans non-Quaker official ofthe organizational organizations overseas parliament parliamentary peace Pennsylvania petition Philadelphia policies political popular practices Protestant Quaker reformers radical reformist religious actors Revolution royal Saint Domingue settlers slaveholding Social Movements Society of Friends Spain Spanish Sublimis Deus Taínos Thomas Clarkson tion Transnational William Yearly Meeting