The Tensions of Internationalism: Transnational Anti-Slavery in the 1880s and 1890s

Laqua, Daniel

doi:10.1080/07075332.2011.620742

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“…16 The plural "tensions of internationalism" were closely related to the myriad of tensions of colonialism and their tentative administration by European colonial powers, at home and abroad. 17 Imperial Internationalism, International Imperialism 5 Anti-slavery internationalism was co-opted for political and economic reasons and intentions, serving as a rationale to further colonial expansion and sustain existing global social hierarchies and inequalities. The challenges effectively posed to the transatlantic slave trade, not necessarily to slavery and analogous conditions "on the ground," and the advocacy of "humanitarian reform politics" were related to the economic and political projects of the so-called new imperialism and the "effective occupation" of colonial territories debated in Berlin in 1884-1885.…”

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Developing Civilisation? Imperial Internationalism at the League of Nations (1920s-1930s)

Jerónimo¹

2020

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Developing Civilisation? Imperial Internationalism at the League of Nations (1920s-1930s)

Jerónimo¹

2020

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“…Yet, as Daniel Laqua has shown, the transnational anti-slavery movement entailed a coming together of different political and religious traditions. 75 Recent work on Britain has begun to overturn the cosy assumptions underpinning, for instance, the well-established tradition of anti-slavery activism. Examining the origins of this phenomenon, Christopher Brown has shown how British defeat in the American Revolution acted as the catalyst in transforming passive opponents of slavery into an active body of opinion.…”

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

Green

2014

Hist. J.

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This article surveys the wave of new historical and political-science literature exploring humanitarianism and the ‘pre-history’ of human rights in the long nineteenth century, noting the presentist assumptions underpinning much of this literature. On the one hand, histories of humanitarianism have focused on the origins of present-day humanitarian concerns, paying particular attention to the anti-slavery movement. On the other hand, the overwhelming majority of this literature has explored Anglo-American (and usually Protestant) humanitarianism to the exclusion of the humanitarian campaigns and ideologies of other nations and faith traditions. A more properly historical approach is required, which would pay greater attention to the fusion of religious and secular traditions of activism, to the particular role of women in constituting these traditions, and to the different national contexts in which they bore fruit. Such an approach would also expand our understanding of ‘humanitarian’ activity to incorporate causes with less obvious present-day relevance, such as the temperance movement and Josephine Butler's campaign against the state regulation of prostitution. It would certainly prompt deeper reflection on the contingency of humanitarianism as a topic of historical inquiry, at least as currently constructed.

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“… Daniel Laqua, “The Tensions of Internationalism: Transnational Anti‐Slavery in the 1880s and 1890s,” The International History Revie w, 33:4 (December 2011),706.…”

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The British Empire, International Government, and Human Rights

Grant

2013

History Compass

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This essay examines recent publications in several historical fields to articulate the relationships between the British Empire, international government, and human rights from British conceptions of imperial world order in the late nineteenth century to the end of empire in the Cold War.In the past several years, historians have given considerable attention to relationships between the British Empire, international government, and human rights. Studies of Great Britain's role in the League of Nations have built upon a longstanding body of scholarship, while studies of the multifaceted relationships between Britain and the United Nations (U.N.) and the evolving, international system of human rights have broken new, if limited, ground. 1 In a review of the field of human rights history in 2004, Kenneth Cmiel called for wider recognition that the meaning of human rights is multivalent and historically contingent. 2 Recent historical studies have paid heed, contributing to an effort across fields to examine human rights as visions not only seen, but contested. 3 In so doing, historians have begun to bridge a gap between the historiographies of international government and human rights before the Second World War. This essay spans additional divides. It draws connections between several as yet separate bodies of historical scholarship on the British Empire, international government, and human rights from British conceptions of imperial world order in the Victorian era to the end of empire in the Cold War.In the late nineteenth century, members of Britain's intellectual elite and political class imagined forms of a new world order centered on the imperial federation of Britain and its white settler colonies. As Duncan Bell explains, this project of structural reform was a reaction to the social friction of industrial capitalism and the extension of democracy in the United Kingdom through the 1867 and 1884 reform acts. Imperial federation was also conceived as a strategic response to the growing economic and geopolitical competition offered by Germany, the United States, and Russia. More than an economic or political initiative, imperial federation was regarded as an expression of common culture or Anglo-Saxonism, or both. It was something moral and metaphysical, the epitome of universal principles of civilization realized through the genius of the British nation. 4 By Britain's civilized standards, the vast majority of the imperial subjects in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific were deemed "backward" and therefore undeserving of the same status as the white brethren of Greater Britain.In contrast to imperial federalists, liberal internationalists were mainly concerned with facilitating co-operation between European states in this volatile era. They attempted to foster, in varying degrees, both institutional solutions and a transcendent moral conscience for humanity. They promoted free trade as a means to forge universal bonds of mutual benefit and trust, and they worked to avert war through multilateral agre...

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The Tensions of Internationalism: Transnational Anti-Slavery in the 1880s and 1890s

Cited by 17 publications

References 15 publications

Developing Civilisation? Imperial Internationalism at the League of Nations (1920s-1930s)

Developing Civilisation? Imperial Internationalism at the League of Nations (1920s-1930s)

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

The British Empire, International Government, and Human Rights

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