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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Main Author: Pupavac, Vanessa
Other Authors: Fassin, Didier
Format: Book Section
Published: Zone Books 2010
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1406/