The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism

The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism
Title The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism PDF eBook
Author Lasse Heerten
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 413
Release 2017-09-28
Genre History
ISBN 1107111803

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A global history of 'Biafra', providing a new explanation for the ascendance of humanitarianism in a postcolonial world.

The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism

The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism
Title The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism PDF eBook
Author Lasse Heerten
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 0
Release 2019-03-28
Genre History
ISBN 9781107530423

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In the summer of 1968, audiences around the globe were shocked when newspapers and television stations confronted them with photographs of starving children in the secessionist Republic of Biafra. This global concern fundamentally changed how the Nigerian Civil War was perceived: an African civil war that had been fought for one year without fostering any substantial interest from international publics became 'Biafra' - the epitome of humanitarian crisis. Based on archival research from North America, Western Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa, this book is the first comprehensive study of the global history of the conflict. A major addition to the flourishing history of human rights and humanitarianism, it argues that the global moment 'Biafra' is closely linked to the ascendance of human rights, humanitarianism, and Holocaust memory in a postcolonial world. The conflict was a key episode for the re-structuring of the relations between the West and the Third World.

The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism

The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism
Title The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism PDF eBook
Author Lasse Heerten
Publisher
Pages 398
Release 2017
Genre HISTORY
ISBN 9781108524032

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"In the summer of 1968, audiences around the globe were shocked when newspapers and TV stations confronted them with photographs of starving children in the secessionist Republic of Biafra. This global concern fundamentally changed how the Nigerian Civil War was perceived: an African civil war that had been fought for one year without fostering any substantial interest from international publics became 'Biafra' - the epitome of humanitarian crisis. Based on archival research from North America, Western Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, this book is the first comprehensive study of the global history of the conflict. A major addition to the flourishing history of human rights and humanitarianism, it argues that the global moment "Biafra" is closely linked to the ascendance of human rights, humanitarianism, and Holocaust memory in a postcolonial world. The conflict was a key episode for the re-structuring of the relations between the West and the Third World."--Provided by publisher.

The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire

The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire
Title The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire PDF eBook
Author Martin Thomas
Publisher
Pages 801
Release 2018
Genre History
ISBN 0198713193

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The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire offers the most comprehensive treatment of the causes, course, and consequences of the collapse of empires in the twentieth century. The volume's contributors convey the global reach of decolonization, analysing the ways in which European, Asian, and African empires disintegrated over the past century.

A History of the Republic of Biafra

A History of the Republic of Biafra
Title A History of the Republic of Biafra PDF eBook
Author Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 287
Release 2020-08-27
Genre History
ISBN 1108895956

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The Republic of Biafra lasted for less than three years, but the war over its secession would contort Nigeria for decades to come. Samuel Fury Childs Daly examines the history of the Nigerian Civil War and its aftermath from an uncommon vantage point – the courtroom. Wartime Biafra was glutted with firearms, wracked by famine, and administered by a government that buckled under the weight of the conflict. In these dangerous conditions, many people survived by engaging in fraud, extortion, and armed violence. When the fighting ended in 1970, these survival tactics endured, even though Biafra itself disappeared from the map. Based on research using an original archive of legal records and oral histories, Daly catalogues how people navigated conditions of extreme hardship on the war front, and shows how the conditions of the Nigerian Civil War paved the way for the country's long experience of crime that was to follow.

Humanitarianism

Humanitarianism
Title Humanitarianism PDF eBook
Author Antonio De Lauri
Publisher
Pages 234
Release 2020
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9789004431133

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Humanitarianism: Keywords is a comprehensive dictionary designed as a compass for navigating the conceptual universe of humanitarianism.

The NGO Moment

The NGO Moment
Title The NGO Moment PDF eBook
Author Kevin O'Sullivan
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 287
Release 2021-10-14
Genre History
ISBN 1108477305

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Offers a fresh interpretation of the social, cultural and ideological foundations that shaped the rapid expansion of the global NGO sector. Kevin O'Sullivan explains how and why NGOs became the primary conduits of popular compassion for the global poor and how this shaped the West's relationship with the post-colonial world.