Between compassion and conservatism: a genealogy of British humanitarian sensibilities
Abstract: The chapter explores continuities in modern British humanitarianism at its birth two hundred years ago and today. Modern British humanitarianism arose out of the contradictions between humanist ideals, expanding social sympathies, and fears of radical political change following the French...
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Zone Books
2010
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1406/ |