Book contents
- Protecting the Empire’s Humanity
- Critical Perspectives on Empire
- Protecting the Empire’s Humanity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Mapping Humanitarianism
- Part II Humanitarianism and Settler Colonialism
- 6 Making Colonization Civilizing
- 7 Dealing with the Devil
- 8 Conscripts of Civilization
- 9 Betrayal in the Borderlands
- 10 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
10 - Conclusion
from Part II - Humanitarianism and Settler Colonialism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 September 2021
Book contents
- Protecting the Empire’s Humanity
- Critical Perspectives on Empire
- Protecting the Empire’s Humanity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Mapping Humanitarianism
- Part II Humanitarianism and Settler Colonialism
- 6 Making Colonization Civilizing
- 7 Dealing with the Devil
- 8 Conscripts of Civilization
- 9 Betrayal in the Borderlands
- 10 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter asks what the Aborigines’ Protection Society and Thomas Hodgkin reveal to us about British humanitarianism and settler colonialism in the mid-nineteenth century. It also considers how, in the twenty-first century, we should read the chauvinism and paternalism of metropolitan advocates of indigenous rights, and how we can understand the importance, but limitations, of their interventions.
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- Protecting the Empire's HumanityThomas Hodgkin and British Colonial Activism 1830–1870, pp. 324 - 333Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021