Colonization and the origins of humanitarian governance : protecting aborigines across the nineteenth-century British empire

Publication Data

• Title Colonization and the origins of humanitarian governance : protecting aborigines across the nineteenth-century British empire
• Author Alan Lester
• Contributor Fae Dussart
• Publisher Cambridge University Press
• Publication date 2014
• Publication location Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Language English

Contents

Colonization and humanitarianism: histories, geographies and biographies
The genesis of humanitarian governance: George Arthur and the transition from amelioration to protection
Colonization and protection: an experiment orchestrated in London
Humane colonization in practice: the Port Phillip District protectorate of aborigines
The New Zealand protectorate of aborigines
Humanitarian governance in a settler empire.

Topics

• Humanitarianism :: Political aspects :: Great Britain :: History :: 19th century
• Great Britain :: Colonies :: Administration :: History :: 19th century
• Great Britain

Colonization and the origins of humanitarian governance : protecting aborigines across the nineteenth-century British empire by Alan Lester. ISBN 9781107007833. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.