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The History and Practice of Humanitarian Intervention and Aid in Africa

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  1. Bronwen Everill

    1. University of Warwick, UK

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  2. Josiah Kaplan

    1. University of Oxford, UK

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The history of humanitarian intervention has often overlooked Africa. This book brings together perspectives from history, cultural studies, international relations, policy, and non-governmental organizations to analyze the themes, continuities and discontinuities in Western humanitarian engagement with Africa.

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: Enduring Humanitarianisms in Africa

    • Bronwen Everill, Josiah Kaplan
    Pages 1-22

  3. Freetown, Frere Town and the Kat River Settlement: Nineteenth-Century Humanitarian Intervention and Precursors to Modern Refugee Camps

    • Bronwen Everill
    Pages 23-42

  4. Public Health or Public Good? Humanitarian Agendas and the Treatment of Leprosy in Uganda

    • Kathleen Vongsathorn
    Pages 43-66

  5. Contraband Charity: German Humanitarianism in Contemporary Kenya

    • Nina Berman
    Pages 67-92

  6. ‘Reading’ British Armed Humanitarian Intervention in Sierra Leone, 2000–2

    • Josiah Kaplan
    Pages 93-119

  7. Humanitarian Intervention in the Horn of Africa

    • Christopher Clapham
    Pages 120-139

  8. The Democratic Republic of Congo: The Land of Humanitarian Interventions

    • Claude Kabemba
    Pages 140-157

  9. Humanitarian Aspects of Interventions by the United Nations in Southern Africa

    • Christopher Saunders
    Pages 158-175

  10. The Nigerian Civil War and ‘Humanitarian Intervention’

    • Michael Aaronson
    Pages 176-196

  11. Building State Effectiveness: Evolving Donor Approaches to Good Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa

    • Claire Leigh
    Pages 197-216

  12. Beyond Humanitarian Imperialism: The Dubious Origins of ‘Humanitarian Intervention’ and Some Rules for its Future

    • Richard Drayton
    Pages 217-231

  13. Conclusion

    • Bronwen Everill, Josiah Kaplan
    Pages 232-238

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 239-250
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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Warwick, UK

    Bronwen Everill

  • University of Oxford, UK

    Josiah Kaplan

About the editors

Michael Aaronson, University of Surrey, UK Nina Berman, The Ohio State University, USA Christopher Clapham,, Cambridge University, UK Richard Drayton, King's College London, UK Bronwen Everill, Warwick University, UK Claude Kabemba, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa Josiah Kaplan, Independent Scholar, UK Claire Leigh, Overseas Development Institute, UK Chris Saunders, University of Cape Town, South Africa Kathleen Vongsathorn, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany Jennifer Welsh, Oxford University, UK.

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