Civilising mission- Humanitarianism

Johannes

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Johannes Paulmann

Malleable concept

power of actions depended on

resources, authority and media acess

alchimical humanitariansim

removing the root of the issue- Leopold

1864

ICRC

Barnett imperial H

war was main source of destruction, commerce production and had a strong belief in western and christian civilisation

Conjuncture

transition

functionalist

how it eased class tensions

Alice Conklin

uplift backwards people- French republican mission

1950

UNESCO condemned CM

Secular CM

mastery

mise en valeur

improving the standard of living

Railways

trade and hygiene- not believed by French imperial authorities- focus on improving colonial producers health and farming techniques

1920s and 30s

implement work ethic- exchange laziness for wage labour in the capitalist system

1931

Paris colonial exhibition

Republican civilising discourse in an age of empire

was unstable- French policies were constantly changing

French Third Republic

1870-1914, secular mission run by new governming elite and religious run by catholic church

men and women

suited differently

men

reason and rationality

Phillipe Delisie

How the work of catholic missionaries was jeopardized with the revolution in France and creation of Haiti as an independent nation

Priests from Brittany

Breton Christianity- evangelicised- tension, ensured practise of Catholicism in french territory of Saint-Dominique

1791

Slave uprising

1804

Haiti independence- weakened Catholic hierarchy

Agents of new French republic

wished to nationalise French property

Jean-Jacques Dessalines

ordered removal of all whites from the Island

1860 Concordat

Haiti and Rome- Holy See- Catholicism main religion

1864

Building of Haitian seminary in Paris

marriage

missionaries- sacrament of souls and social progress- Bourgeosie- encroachment on spiritual power upon the temporal

Voodoo

struggle for independence opened it, used catholicism, prayers in latin, 1860s clerics barbaric

Reeves-Ellington

American Board- sent wives and missionaries to colonies

American cultural expansion

expand evangelical culture- protected by British imperial rule- transnational approach

Istanbul

built on Byzantine capital- Bible land- St paul

Islam

led to degeneracy

Balkans

laboratory of reform- effort t modernize- safeguard against foreign intervention

1839

ottoman state introduced Tanzimat

Tanzimat

restructured empire socially, administrative and politically- good conditions for American reform

Frontier

allowed cross-cultural encounters

Nestorova

missionaries had little impact on the Balkans

Deringii

challenged Ottoman state power