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04961aam a2200625 i 4500 001 70CFF21AB85D11E6BDBAC4DDDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161202010137 008 160404s2016 nyua b 001 0deng 010 $a 2015045811 020 $a 0190240350 020 $a 9780190240356 035 $a (OCoLC)943678081 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YDXCP $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a E209 $b .M65 2016 082 00 $a 361.70941/09033 $2 23 084 $a HIS036030 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Moniz, Amanda B., $e author. 245 10 $a From empire to humanity : $b the American Revolution and the origins of humanitarianism / $c Amanda B. Moniz. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2016] 300 $a xi, 314 pages ; $c 25 cm 520 2 $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 "-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Chapter 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. 611 27 $a American Revolution (1775-1783) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01351668 651 0 $a United States $x Social aspects. $y Revolution, 1775-1783 $x Social aspects. 651 0 $a United States $x Influence. $y Revolution, 1775-1783 $x Influence. 650 0 $a Humanitarianism $z United States $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Humanitarianism $z Great Britain $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Humanitarianism $z West Indies, British $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Social reformers $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Political activists $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Physicians $x History $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Imperialism $x History $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Cosmopolitanism $x History $y 18th century. 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800). $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Cosmopolitanism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00880635 650 7 $a Humanitarianism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00963578 650 7 $a Imperialism $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00968140 650 7 $a Physicians $x Political activity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01062896 650 7 $a Political activists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069192 650 7 $a Social reformers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01122841 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 651 7 $a West Indies $z British West Indies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01243266 648 7 $a 1700-1799 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Moniz, Amanda B. $t From empire to humanity $d New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016 $z 9780190240363 $w (DLC) 2016016061 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214011958.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170203030551.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=70CFF21AB85D11E6BDBAC4DDDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search