Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System

In the nineteenth century, the British navy seized slave ships, "re-capturing? enslaved people and resettling them as liberated Africans across various colonies and territories. Maeve Ryan explores the importance of these experiments to the emergence of modern humanitarianism and the evolution of a British antislavery "world system.?

About the author

Maeve Ryan is a senior lecturer in history and grand strategy in the Department of War Studies and co-director of the Centre for Grand Strategy at King's College London.

Summary

How the suppression of the slave trade and the “disposal” of liberated Africans shaped the emergence of modern humanitarianism

Product details

• Authors: Maeve Ryan
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9780300251395
• ISBN: 978-0-300-25139-5
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, African History, 1837–1901 (Victorian period), Slavery & abolition of slavery, 1714–1837 (Georgian period), C 1700 To C 1800, Slavery and abolition of slavery