Raphaël Cheriau

Imperial Powers and Humanitarian Interventions (eBook, ePUB)

The Zanzibar Sultanate, Britain, and France in the Indian Ocean, 1862-1905

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Zanzibar Sultanate became the focal point of European imperial and humanitarian policies, most notably Britain, France, and Germany. In fact, the Sultanate was one of the few places in the world where humanitarianism and imperialism met in the most obvious fashion. This crucial encounter was perfectly embodied by the iconic meeting of Dr. Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley in 1871. This book challenges the common presumption that those humanitarian concerns only served to conceal vile colonial interests. It brings the repression of the East African slave trade at sea and the expansion of empires into a new light in comparing French and British archives for the first time.

"Raphaël Cheriau argues that the 'brutal power politics' of recent humanitarian interventions have shaped historians' perspectives on earlier interventions, but that he is able to escape these present-day sensibilities in his approach to British and French interventions in nineteenth-century eastern Africa. While I might challenge that suggestion, nonetheless he offers historians a valuable book that explores in detail the way imperialists of the nineteenth century did and did not use humanitarianism as a justification for their work in eastern Africa." - Elisabeth MacMahon, The English Historical Review

"The author weaves together a rich trove of primary documents from both British and French archives; some of these have been fruitfully exploited by previous historians, others reflect Cheriau's energetic digging to go beyond the obvious. He also draws upon an equally dense corpus of published primary sources in both languages, as well as several contemporary newspapers, while his mastery of the secondary literature is impressive." - Edward Alpers, Australian Institute of International Affairs

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000383027
• Artikelnr.: 61373175

Autorenporträt

Raphaël Cheriau is associate member of the UCD Centre for War Studies and Paris-Sorbonne Roland Mousnier Centre.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Zanzibar or the Dramatic Encounter of Imperialism and
Humanitarianism Part 1: The Right of Visit, the French Flag and the
Repression of the Slave Trade in Zanzibar 1. The Repression of the Slave
Trade: An Impossible Mission? 2. The French Flag in the Indian Ocean: Myth
or Reality? 3. Dhows and the Indian Ocean Slave Trade: International Law or
Imperial Politics? Part 2: Empire and Humanitarian Action in Zanzibar: A
Troublesome Relationship 4. A British Vice-Admiralty Court in Zanzibar:
Sovereignty and Imperial Interference 5. The Bartle Frere Mission and the
1873 Treaty: Humanitarian or Imperial Diplomacy? 6. The 1889 Zanzibar
Blockade: An International Humanitarian Intervention or an Apogee of
Imperialism? Part 3: Zanzibar's Contribution to International Law and
Humanitarian Operations 7. The 1890 Brussels Conference: An Apogee of
Imperial or Humanitarian Politics? 8. The Hague International Arbitration:
The End of an Old Controversy? 9. Anti-Slave Trade Policies and the "Cause
of Humanity" or The Shaping of a New Humanitarian Intervention Theory in
International Law. Conclusion: Abolitionism and Humanitarian Intervention:
"Ugly Business Behind Great Words"?