From Empire to Humanity: The American Revolution and the Origins of Humanitarianism

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Amanda B. Moniz (Assistant Director, Assistant Director, National History Center and American Historical Association)

From Empire to Humanity

The American Revolution and the Origins of Humanitarianism

Amanda B. Moniz (Assistant Director, Assistant Director, National History Center and American Historical Association)

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Oxford University Press Inc
29 August 2016

History of the Americas; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Colonialism & imperialism; American War of Independence

In the decades before the Revolution, Americans and Britons shared an imperial approach to helping those in need during times of disaster and hardship.

They worked together on charitable ventures designed to strengthen the British empire, and ordinary men and women made donations for faraway members of the British community.

Growing up in this world of connections, future activists from the British Isles, North America, and the West Indies developed expansive outlooks and transatlantic ties. The schism created by the Revolution fractured the community that nurtured this generation of philanthropists.

In From Empire to Humanity, Amanda Moniz tells the story of a generation of American and British activists who transformed humanitarianism as they adjusted to being foreigners.

American independence put an end to their common imperial humanitarianism, but not their friendships, their far-reaching visions, or their belief that philanthropy was a tool of statecraft.

In the postwar years, these philanthropists, led by doctor-activists, collaborated on the anti-drowning cause, spread new medical charities, combatted the slave trade, reformed penal practices, and experimented with relieving needy strangers. The nature of their cooperation, however, had changed.

No longer members of the same polity, they adopted a universal approach to their benevolence, working together for the good of humanity, rather than empire.

Making the care of suffering strangers routine, these British and American activists laid the groundwork for later generations' global undertakings. From Empire to Humanity offers new perspectives on the history of philanthropy, as well as the Atlantic world and colonial and postcolonial history.

By: Amanda B. Moniz (Assistant Director Assistant Director National History Center and American Historical Association)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 164mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 568g
ISBN: 9780190240356
ISBN 10: 0190240350
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 29 August 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Amanda B. Moniz is the David M. Rubenstein Curator of Philanthropy at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan and held a Cassius Marcellus Clay Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Yale University. Moniz is the recipient of the inaugural Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Prize.

Reviews for From Empire to Humanity: The American Revolution and the Origins of Humanitarianism

Moniz's study is innovative; it opens a clear, usable path for further research into Enlightenment-era humanitarianism, and non-state Anglo-American relations following the Treaty of Paris of 1783. * Patrick Lacroix, Human Rights Review * Extensively researched, meticulously documented, and elegantly phrased * Bela Kashyap, The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society * fascinating, very well researched ... Highly recommended. * CHOICE * This bold book begs as many questions, and some concerns, as it does open new vistas. One inheres in Moniz's method. Her marvelous tales of self-sacrificing doctors give readers a view of the challenges and meanings of religious and professional dedication. * Jeremy Adelman, Diplomatic History *