Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance: Protecting Aborigines across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire
Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance: Protecting Aborigines across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire
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殖民化与人道主义治理的起源：保护十九世纪大英帝国的原住民
DOI：
10.1017/cbo9781139022026
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发表时间：
2014
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0.6
通讯作者：
Fae Dussart
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作者：
Alan Lester;Fae Dussart
那些创造了英国19世纪殖民帝国的人是如何使殖民与人道主义相容的？避免愤世嫉俗或庆祝的反应，这本书认真对待殖民官员的人道主义处置，检查人道主义治理和帝国之间的关系。从英属洪都拉斯到货车迪门地和新南威尔士州、新西兰和加拿大到印度，“人道”殖民治理的故事将解放、改善、和解、保护和发展项目联系在一起。这在乔治亚瑟和乔治格雷等州长的生活中可以看到，他们的职业生涯目睹了英国移民对土著人民的暴力和破坏性殖民。这个故事挑战了将官员的人道主义情感排除在殖民历史之外的做法，并将定居者殖民地置于西方人道主义的更大历史背景中。
How did those responsible for creating Britain's nineteenth-century settler empire render colonization compatible with humanitarianism? Avoiding a cynical or celebratory response, this book takes seriously the humane disposition of colonial officials, examining the relationship between humanitarian governance and empire. The story of 'humane' colonial governance connects projects of emancipation, amelioration, conciliation, protection and development in sites ranging from British Honduras through Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales, New Zealand and Canada to India. It is seen in the lives of governors like George Arthur and George Grey, whose careers saw the violent and destructive colonization of indigenous peoples at the hands of British emigrants. The story challenges the exclusion of officials' humanitarian sensibilities from colonial history and places the settler colonies within the larger historical context of Western humanitarianism.