cam a22 4500 55135867X CHVBK 20201114033324.0 m d cr |n |||||||| 150324s2015 enka sb 001 0 eng d 2014040922 978-0-19-020098-5 (hardcover : acidfree paper) (SERSOL)ssj0001518093 (WaSeSS)ssj0001518093 DLC eng DLC DLC WaSeSS rda HV640.4.G7 S42 2015 362.87/80941 23 HIS015000 POL035010 HIS037060 bisacsh Shaw Caroline 1979- Britannia's embrace modern humanitarianism and the imperial origins of refugee relief Caroline Shaw Oxford New York Oxford University Press 2015 1 online resource (ix, 313 pages) illustrations text txt rdacontent/eng computer c rdamedia/eng online resource cr rdacarrier/eng Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-298) and index. Introduction: Britannia's Embrace -- Part I. The Rise of Liberal Refuge -- Catholic Émigrés and the Protestant Nation -- The Consolation of Refuge -- Telling Stories, Taking Action -- Taking Refuge in Empire -- Colonial Refuge in the Metropolitan Eye -- Part II. A National Tradition or a Universal Right? : Refuge and the Law -- Heroes, Villains, and the Parameters of Political Asylum -- Probing the Limits of Imperial Humanitarianism -- Hardening the Humanitarian Heart -- Conclusion: Moral Politics and the Quest for a Language of Right. Lizenzbedingungen können den Zugang einschränken. License restrictions may limit access. "On the eve of the American Revolution, the refugee was, according to British tradition, a Protestant who sought shelter from continental persecution. By the turn of the twentieth century, however, British refuge would be celebrated internationally as being open to all persecuted foreigners. Britain had become a haven for fugitives as diverse as Karl Marx and Louis Napoleon, Simón Bolívar and Frederick Douglass. How and why did the refugee category expand? How, in a period when no law forbade foreigners entry to Britain, did the refugee emerge as a category for humanitarian and political action? Why did the plight of these particular foreigners become such a characteristically British concern? Current understandings about the origins of refuge have focused on the period after 1914. Britannia's Embrace offers the first historical analysis of the origins of this modern humanitarian norm in the long nineteenth century. At a time when Britons were reshaping their own political culture, this charitable endeavor became constitutive of what it meant to be liberal on the global stage. Like British anti-slavery, its sister movement, campaigning on behalf of foreign refugees seemed to give purpose to the growing empire and the resources of empire gave it greater strength. By the dawn of the twentieth century, British efforts on behalf of persecuted foreigners declined precipitously, but its legacies in law and in modern humanitarian politics would be long-lasting. In telling this story, Britannia's Embrace puts refugee relief front and center in histories of human rights and international law and of studies of Britain in the world. In so doing, it describes the dynamic relationship between law, resources, and moral storytelling that remains critical to humanitarianism today"-- Refugees Great Britain History 19th century Political refugees Great Britain History 19th century Humanitarianism Great Britain History 19th century Refugees Government policy Great Britain History 19th century Asylum, Right of Great Britain History 19th century Imperialism Social aspects Great Britain History 19th century Liberalism Great Britain History 19th century HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights bisacsh HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century bisacsh Great Britain Emigration and immigration History 19th century Great Britain Politics and government 19th century https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190200985.001.0001/acprof-9780190200985 Uni Basel: Volltext https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190200985.001.0001/acprof-9780190200985 Uni Basel: Volltext https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190200985.001.0001/acprof-9780190200985 Uni Bern: Volltext BK020053 XK020053 XK020000 University Press Scholarship Online History Collection Oxford Scholarship Online History E-Books von 360MarcUpdates Oxford Scholarship Online IDSBB A145 A145 145VT IDSBB A145 A145 145VT IDSBB B405 B405 405VT NELB4052004 IDSBB 100 1- Shaw Caroline 1979- IDSBB 856 40 https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190200985.001.0001/acprof-9780190200985 Uni Basel: Volltext IDSBB 856 40 https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190200985.001.0001/acprof-9780190200985 Uni Basel: Volltext IDSBB 856 40 https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190200985.001.0001/acprof-9780190200985 Uni Bern: Volltext SWISSBIB 435861522