From empire to humanity : the American Revolution and the origins of humanitarianism /
From Empire to Humanity tells the story of a generation of American and British activists who transformed humanitarianism as they adjusted to becoming foreigners to each other in the wake of the American Revolution. In the decades before the Revolution, Americans and Britons shared an imperial appro...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter One: Protestantism, Empire, and Transatlantic Philanthropy, 1700-1760s
- Chapter Two: Coming of Age in the Atlantic Community, 1740s-1770s
- Chapter Three: The Unnatural War
- Chapter Four: The Empire of Humanity
- Chapter Five: Circumnavigations of Charity
- Chapter Six: The Common Cause of Humanity
- Chapter Seven: Ambivalent Cosmopolites
- Epilogue.