The Protestant International

Humanitarianism in Nineteenth-Century Context: Religious, Gendered, National

“…72 For Protestantism dominated German political culture after unification and Germany was, in any case, well connected to the broader world of transnational Protestantism and global missionary activity -precisely the context in which British and American humanitarianism flourished. 73 Prussia, in particular, nurtured a strong revivalist movement in the shape of Pietism. Yet neither the well-established body of work on the extent to which Protestantism coloured National Liberalism nor the growing body of work that seeks to situate the Kaiserreich in transnational context has even begun to address the extent to which humanitarianism formed part of German liberal culture in this period -if it did.…”