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Humanity : a history of European concepts in practice from the sixteenth century to the present / edited by Fabian Klose and Mirjam Thulin.
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Humanity - a History of European Concepts in Practice (Conference) (2015 : Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
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Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2016]
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324 pages ; 24 cm.
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BJ1533.H9 H86 2016
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Humanity
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Europe
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Europe
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Civilization
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Philosophy
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Klose, Fabian
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Thulin, Mirjam
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V & R academic
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Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz. Beiheft ; 110.
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Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz. Supplement, 0170-365X ; 110
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"The present volume grew out of the interdisciplinary conference 'Humanity -- a History of European Concepts in Practice', sponsored by the research group 'Concepts of Humanity and Humanitarian Practice', in October 2015 at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz"--Acknowledgments.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : European concepts and practices of humanity in historical perspective / Fabian Klose and Mirjam Thulin
Humankind and humanity
Humankind : from division to recomposition / Francisco Bethencourt
Universalism and its discontents : humanity as a twentieth-century concept / Paul Betts
Morality and human dignity
Humanism and its humanitas : the transition from humanitas christiana to humanitas politica in the political writings of erasmus / Mihai-D. Grigore
"All people have reason and free will" : the controversy over the nature of the indians in the sixteenth century / Mariano Delgado
Conceptions of humanity in nineteenth-century german protestant missions / Judith Becker
From emancipation to transcendence? dignity, catholicism, and the changing imageries of humanity in post-war Europe / Robert Brier
Humanitarianism, violence, and international law
Humanitarianism before humanitarianism? Spanish discourses on slavery from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century / Thomas Weller
"A war of justice and humanity" : abolition and establishing humanity as an international norm / Fabian Klose
Fulfilling the martens clause : debating "crimes against humanity", 1899-1945 / Kerstin von Lingen
Between globalisation and contestation : humanity as a polemical concept within the red cross and red crescent movement / Esther Moller
Charity, philanthropy, and solidarity
"Une œuvre internationale d'un caractère humanitaire" : The appeal to humanity in international masonic relations / Joachim Berger
Between Christian solidarity and human solidarity : humanity and the mobilisation of aid for distant children in Catholic Europe in the long nineteenth century / Katharina Stornig
The unity of the human family : a foundation for global Justice / Gerhard Kruip
Epilogue
Humanity : humanitarian reason : imperial humanitarianism : European concepts in practice / Johannes Paulmann
Contributors
Index of names
Index of places.
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9783525101452 ((hardcover))
3525101457 ((hardcover))
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960090731
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