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Title: | Humanitarianism in the age of empire: Deutsch-Südwestafrika & l'État Indépendant du Congo |
Author: | Bargueño, David |
Year: | 2011 |
Periodical: | Journal of Namibian Studies (ISSN 1863-5954) |
Issue: | 9 |
Pages: | 17-60 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Namibia Congo Free State |
Subjects: | human rights colonialism intellectual history social history |
Abstract: | Humanitarianism has neither a single past nor a predetermined future. As the bastard child of the Enlightenment and Christianity, national foreign policies and nongovernmental organizations, the early development of humanitarianism is often written entirely within the confines of Europe, with no reference to events in Africa. The present article shows how histories of humanitarianism in the former Congo Free State and German Southwest Africa shed light on the varied influences, priorities, and strategies of selective acts of compassion during the first decade of the twentieth century. What becomes abundantly clear, in turn, is the absence of any single humanitarian consensus at the fin de siècle. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |