000756887 000__ 04395cam\a2200493\i\4500 000756887 001__ 756887 000756887 005__ 20210515115701.0 000756887 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000756887 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 000756887 008__ 160506s2016\\\\nyua\\\\ob\\\\001\0deng\d 000756887 020__ $$a9780190240387$$q(electronic book) 000756887 0247_ $$a10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190240356$$2doi 000756887 035__ $$a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001492443 000756887 035__ $$a756887 000756887 040__ $$aStDuBDS$$beng$$cStDuBDS$$erda$$epn 000756887 050_0 $$aE209$$b.M65 2016eb 000756887 08204 $$a361.7094109033$$223 000756887 1001_ $$aMoniz, Amanda B.,$$eauthor. 000756887 24510 $$aFrom empire to humanity$$h[electronic resource] :$$bthe American Revolution and the origins of humanitarianism /$$cAmanda B. Moniz. 000756887 264_1 $$aNew York, NY :$$bOxford University Press,$$c2016. 000756887 300__ $$a1 online resource (xi, 314 pages) :$$billustrations 000756887 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000756887 336__ $$astill image$$2rdacontent 000756887 337__ $$acomputer$$2rdamedia 000756887 338__ $$aonline resource$$2rdacarrier 000756887 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000756887 5050_ $$aChapter 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. 000756887 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000756887 5202_ $$a"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 "--$$cProvided by publisher. 000756887 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000756887 650_0 $$aHumanitarianism$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y18th century. 000756887 650_0 $$aHumanitarianism$$zGreat Britain$$xHistory$$y18th century. 000756887 650_0 $$aHumanitarianism$$zWest Indies, British$$xHistory$$y18th century. 000756887 650_0 $$aSocial reformers$$xHistory$$y18th century. 000756887 650_0 $$aPolitical activists$$xHistory$$y18th century. 000756887 650_0 $$aPhysicians$$xPolitical activity$$xHistory$$y18th century. 000756887 650_0 $$aImperialism$$xSocial aspects$$xHistory$$y18th century. 000756887 650_0 $$aCosmopolitanism$$xHistory$$y18th century. 000756887 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xHistory$$yRevolution, 1775-1783$$xSocial aspects. 000756887 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xHistory$$yRevolution, 1775-1783$$xInfluence. 000756887 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aMoniz, Amanda B.$$tFrom empire to humanity.$$dNew York : Oxford University Press, 2016$$z9780190240356$$w(DLC) 2015045811$$w(OCoLC)943678081 000756887 85280 $$bebk$$hOxford Scholarship Online 000756887 85640 $$3Oxford scholarship online$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190240356.001.0001$$zOnline Access 000756887 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:756887$$pGLOBAL_SET 000756887 980__ $$aEBOOK 000756887 980__ $$aBIB 000756887 982__ $$aEbook 000756887 983__ $$aOnline