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The Origins of Global Humanitarianism: Religion, Empires, and Advocacy - Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics Stamatov, Peter (Yale University, Connecticut)
The Origins of Global Humanitarianism: Religion, Empires, and Advocacy - Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics
Stamatov, Peter (Yale University, Connecticut)
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.
242 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 23, 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9781107021730 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 246 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 235 × 20 mm · 466 g |
| Language | English |