Origins of Global Humanitarianism - Religion, Empires, and Advocacy

This book locates the historical origins of modern global humanitarianism in the recurrent conflict over the ethical treatment of non-Europeans.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Caribbean beginnings, 1511-20; 2. Pro-indigenist advocacy in the Iberian Atlantic; 3. Religious radicalization and early antislavery; 4. Quaker reformers and the politicization of antislavery; 5. Forging an abolitionist network; 6. The emergence of a new model; Conclusion.

About the author

Peter Stamatov is currently Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale University. His work has appeared in The American Sociological Review, Theory and Society and Contemporary Sociology, as well as in Hungarian and Brazilian scholarly journals. He is past winner of the Bendix Prize of the Comparative Historical Section of the American Sociological Association and was recipient of Cátedra de Excelencia (Excellence Chair) at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Summary

How, when, and why did ordinary people began to care for the fate of distant strangers? This book addresses these questions by reconstructing, for the first time, the historical origins of global humanitarianism. Peter Stamatov investigates these origins in the context of European overseas imperialism between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Stamatov, Peter (Yale University Stamatov, Stamatov Peter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.07.2015
• EAN: 9781107521674
• ISBN: 978-1-107-52167-4
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Social Th; Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, RELIGION / General, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Religion: general, Colonialism & imperialism, Politics & government, Comparative Politics, Colonialism and imperialism