Title Colonization and the origins of humanitarian governance : protecting aborigines across the nineteenth-century British empire / Alan Lester and Fae Dussart.

Publication Info.	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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Description	1 online resource (viii, 283 pages).
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Series	Critical perspectives on Empire
	Critical perspectives on empire.
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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	Reveals the ways in which those responsible for creating Britain's nineteenth-century empire sought to make colonization compatible with humanitarianism.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language	English.
Subject	Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration -- History -- 19th century.
	Great Britain.
	Colonies.
	Administration.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Humanitarianism -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	Humanitarianism -- Political aspects.
	Humanitarianism.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
	History.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
	British colonies.
	Colonies -- Administration.
	Großbritannien.
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Added Author	Dussart, Fae, author.
Other Form:	Print version: Lester, Alan. Colonization and the origins of humanitarian governance 9781107007833 (DLC) 2013040564 (OCoLC)866766367
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Title Colonization and the origins of humanitarian governance : protecting aborigines across the nineteenth-century British empire / Alan Lester and Fae Dussart.

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