Trevor Burnard is a Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation, Director of the Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull. Joy Damousi is the Director of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at Australian Catholic University. Alan Lester is a professor at the University of Sussex.
'This collective book constitutes a crucial contribution to the historiography of both humanitarianism and imperialism, and participates in shedding light on the highly complex and contradictory nature of humanitarianism in the Anglophone world.' Lauriane Simony, French Journal of British Studies -- .