Origins of Global Humanitarianism

Auteur: Stamatov, Peter (Yale University, Connecticut)
Editeur: Cambridge University Press
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.

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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.
ISBN / EAN 9781107521674
Auteur Stamatov, Peter (Yale University, Connecticut)
Editeur Cambridge University Press