Humanitarian Photography: A History (Human Rights in History) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107064708 ISBN 13: 9781107064706

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

This book investigates the historical evolution of 'humanitarian photography' - the mobilization of photography in the service of humanitarian initiatives across state boundaries.

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About the Authors

Heide Fehrenbach is Board of Trustees Professor and Distinguished Research Professor in the history department at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of three books: Cinema in Democratizing Germany, Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America and After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe (with Rita Chin, Geoff Eley, and Atina Grossmann). She is also co-editor, with Uta Poiger, of Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations: American Culture in Western Europe and Japan (2000).

Davide Rodogno is Professor of International History at the Graduate Institute of International and Developmental Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. His books include Fascism's European Empire, Against Massacre: Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Empire, 1815–1914, and, as co-editor, Shaping the Transnational Sphere: Transnational Networks of Experts in the Long Nineteenth Century.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107064708
• ISBN 13: 9781107064706
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 366
• Editor: Fehrenbach Heide, Rodogno Davide