| Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention Contributor(s): Bass, Gary J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307279871 ISBN-13: 9780307279873 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $23.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2009 Annotation: Why do we let evil happen? Why do we sometimes rally to stop it? Whose lives matter to us? These are the key questions posed by Gary Bass in this provocative look at the forgotten world of the first human rights activists. Bass, a rising scholar at Princeton, illuminates the cultural and political landscapes of the nineteenth-century "atrocitarians," as these activists were known, and shows us how a newly emergent free press exposed British, French, and American citizens to atrocities taking place beyond their shores, and galvanized them to action. Wildly romantic, eccentrically educated and full of bizarre enthusiasms, they were also morally serious people on the vanguard of a new political consciousness. Their legacy hasmuch to teach us about our world's current human rights crises. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Modern - 19th Century - Political Science | Human Rights - History | Military - General |
| Dewey: 341.584 |
| LCCN: 2010291347 |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 5.26" W x 8" (0.84 lbs) 528 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
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| Publisher Description: This gripping and important book brings alive over two hundred years of humanitarian interventions. Freedom's Battle illuminates the passionate debates between conscience and imperialism ignited by the first human rights activists in the 19th century, and shows how a newly emergent free press galvanized British, American, and French citizens to action by exposing them to distant atrocities. Wildly romantic and full of bizarre enthusiasms, these activists were pioneers of a new political consciousness. And their legacy has much to teach us about today's human rights crises. |