cam a22 4500 551367938 CHVBK 20201114033805.0 m d cr |n |||||||| 160404s2016 nyua sb 001 0deng d 2015045811 978-0-19-024035-6 (hardcover : acidfree paper) 978-0-19-024036-3 (Updf) 978-0-19-024037-0 (Epub) (SERSOL)ssj0001675131 (WaSeSS)ssj0001675131 DLC eng DLC DLC WaSeSS rda E209 .M65 2016 361.70941/09033 23 HIS036030 bisacsh Moniz Amanda B. From empire to humanity the American Revolution and the origins of humanitarianism Amanda B. Moniz New York, NY Oxford University Press [2016] 1 online resource (xi, 314 pages) illustrations text txt rdacontent/eng computer c rdamedia/eng online resource cr rdacarrier/eng Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-300) and index. Chapter One: Protestantism, Empire, and Transatlantic Philanthropy, 1700-1760s -- Chapter Two: Coming of Age in the Atlantic Community, 1740s-1770s -- Chapter Three: The Unnatural War -- Chapter Four: The Empire of Humanity -- Chapter Five: Circumnavigations of Charity -- Chapter Six: The Common Cause of Humanity -- Chapter Seven: Ambivalent Cosmopolites -- Epilogue. Lizenzbedingungen können den Zugang einschränken. License restrictions may limit access. "From Empire to Humanity tells the story of a generation of American and British activists who transformed humanitarianism as they adjusted to becoming foreigners to each other in the wake of the American Revolution. In the decades before the Revolution, Americans and Britons shared an imperial approach to charitable activity. They worked together in benevolent ventures designed to strengthen the British empire, and ordinary men and women donated to help faraway members of the British community. Raised and educated in this world of connections, future activists from the British Isles, North America, and the West Indies developed expansive outlooks and transatlantic ties. For budding doctors--including Philadelphia's Benjamin Rush, Caribbean-born Londoner John Coakley Lettsom, and John Crawford, whose life took him from Ireland to India, Barbados, South America, and, finally, Baltimore--this was especially true. American independence put an end to their common imperial humanitarianism, but not their friendships, their far-reaching visions, or their belief in philanthropy as a tool of statecraft. In the postwar years, with doctor-activists at the forefront, Americans and Britons collaborated in the anti-drowning cause and other medical philanthropy, antislavery movements, prison reform, and more. No longer members of the same polity, the erstwhile compatriots adopted a universal approach to their beneficence as they reimagined their bonds with people who were now foreigners. Universal benevolence could also be a source of tension. With the new wars at the end of the century, activists' optimistic cosmopolitanism waned, even as their practices endured. Making the care of suffering strangers routine, they laid the groundwork for later generations' global undertakings "-- Humanitarianism United States History 18th century Humanitarianism Great Britain History 18th century Humanitarianism West Indies, British History 18th century Social reformers History 18th century Political activists History 18th century Physicians Political activity History 18th century Imperialism Social aspects History 18th century Cosmopolitanism History 18th century HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) bisacsh United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Social aspects United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Influence https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190240356.001.0001/acprof-9780190240356 Uni Basel: Volltext https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190240356.001.0001/acprof-9780190240356 Uni Basel: Volltext https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190240356.001.0001/acprof-9780190240356 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- Moniz Amanda B. IDSBB 856 40 https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190240356.001.0001/acprof-9780190240356 Uni Basel: Volltext IDSBB 856 40 https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190240356.001.0001/acprof-9780190240356 Uni Basel: Volltext IDSBB 856 40 https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190240356.001.0001/acprof-9780190240356 Uni Bern: Volltext SWISSBIB 405152221