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The Biafran War and postcolonial humanitarianism : spectacles of suffering / Lasse Heerten, Freie Universität Berlin.
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Heerten, Lasse
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
©2017
Description
xiv, 398 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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DT515.836 .H44 2017
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Subject(s)
Food relief
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Nigeria, Eastern
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History
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Humanitarian assistance
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Nigeria, Eastern
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History
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Postcolonialism
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Nigeria
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History
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Nigeria
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History
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Civil War, 1967-1970
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Civilian relief
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Nigeria
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History
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Civil War, 1967-1970
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Influence
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Nigeria, Eastern
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History
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20th century
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Series
Human rights in history
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Summary note
"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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-392) and index.
Contents
Part I. The emergences of Biafra. The end of empire and the coming of postcolonial conflict ; The Biafran campaign for self-determination in a postcolonial world of states ; The transnational internationalization of the Biafran campaign
Part II. Biafra on a global stage. Creating "Biafra": the discovery of civil war as a humanitarian crisis ; "Biafran babies": humanitarian visions of postcolonial disaster ; Auschwitz in Africa? Biafra, Holocaust memory, and the language of rights ; Distant suffering and close concerns: Biafra and the Third World in the global sixties
Part III. The ends and afterlives of Biafra. Biafra, the internationalism of states, and the question of genocide ; The end of Biafra, the end of the lobby ; The afterlives of Biafra.
ISBN
9781107111806 ((hardcover))
1107111803 ((hardcover))
9781107530423 ((pbk.))
1107530423
LCCN
2017021913
OCLC
986237280
Other standard number
40027547820
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