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) [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
324 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Series
    • V & R academic [More in this series]
    • Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz. Beiheft ; 110. [More in this series]
    • V&R academic
    • Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz. Supplement, 0170-365X ; 110
    Notes
    "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.
    Bibliographic references
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9783525101452 ((hardcover))
    • 3525101457 ((hardcover))
    OCLC
    960090731
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