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Cultivating Refuge: A Long History of Dealing with Disaster in North-Central Uganda, 1720-2006

Description:

Historians have long argued that humanitarianism—what Thomas Haskell once described as “alleviating the suffering of distant strangers”—first emerged in eighteenth-century Europe as part of a complex set of perceptual changes involving capitalist growth, Enlightenment ideas, and Christian values. Given these claims, it is no coincidence that humanitarianism has often been...

Keyword:

humanitarianism, refuge, Acholi, Africa, Uganda, and aid

Subject:

African history

Creator:

Edwards, Mitchell

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

08/23/2023

Date Created:

2023-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_1012977 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16733