Freedom's battle : the origins of humanitarian intervention /

Freedom's battle : the origins of humanitarian intervention /

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Author / Creator:	Bass, Gary Jonathan, 1969-
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Description:	x, 509 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Humanitarian intervention -- History. Humanitarian intervention -- Case studies. Humanitarian intervention. Case studies. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7302686

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ISBN:	9780307266484 0307266486
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-481) and index.
Summary:	Gary Bass shatters the myth that the history of humanitarian intervention began with Bill Clinton, or even Woodrow Wilson, and shows, instead, that there is a tangled international tradition, reaching back more than two hundred years, of confronting the suffering of innocent foreigners. Bass describes the political and cultural landscapes out of which these activists arose, as an emergent free press exposed Europeans and Americans to atrocities taking place beyond their shores and galvanized them to act. He brings alive a century of passionate advocacy in Britain, France, Russia, and the United States: the fight the British waged against the oppression of the Greeks in the 1820s, the huge uproar against a notorious massacre in Bulgaria in the 1870s, and the American campaign to stop the Armenian genocide in 1915. He tells the gripping stories of the activists themselves: Byron, Bentham, Madison, Gladstone, Dostoevsky, and Theodore Roosevelt among them. Bass also demonstrates that even in the imperialistic heyday of the nineteenth century, humanitarian ideals could play a significant role in shaping world politics. He argues that the failure of today's leading democracies to shoulder such responsibilities has led to catastrophes such as those in Rwanda and Darfur--catastrophes that he maintains are neither inevitable nor traditional.--From publisher description.

Table of Contents:

Part 1. Introduction
Chapter 1. Humanitarianism or Imperialism?
Chapter 2. Media and Solidarity
Chapter 3. The Diplomacy of Humanitarian Intervention
Part 2. Greeks
Chapter 4. The Greek Revolution
Chapter 5. The Scio Massacre
Chapter 6. The London Greek Committee
Chapter 7. Americans and Greeks
Chapter 8. Lord Byron's War
Chapter 9. Canning
Chapter 10. The Holy Alliance
Chapter 11. A Rumor of Slaughter
Chapter 12. Navarino
Part 3. Syrians
Chapter 13. Napoleon the Little
Chapter 14. The Massacres
Chapter 15. Public Opinion
Chapter 16. Occupying Syria
Chapter 17. Mission Creep
Part 4. Bulgarians
Chapter 18. The Eastern Question
Chapter 19. Pan-Slavism
Chapter 20. Bosnia and Serbia
Chapter 21. Bulgarian Horrors
Chapter 22. Gladstone vs. Disraeli
Chapter 23. The Russo-Turkish War
Chapter 24. The Midlothian Campaign
Part 5. Conclusion
Chapter 25. Armenians
Chapter 26. The Uses of History
Chapter 27. The International Politics of Humanitarian Intervention
Chapter 28. The Domestic Politics of Humanitarian Intervention
Chapter 29. A New Imperialism?
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index