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Book Synopsis This book offers a critical reflection of the historical genesis, transformation, and problématique of “humanity” in the transatlantic world, with a particular eye on cultural representations. “Humanity,” the essays show, was consistently embedded in networks of actors and cultural practices, and its meanings have evolved in step with historical processes such as globalization, cultural imperialism, the transnationalization of activism, and the spread of racism and nationalism. Visions of Humanity applies a historical lens on objects, sounds, and actors to provide a more nuanced understanding of the historical tensions and struggles involved in constructing, invoking, and instrumentalizing the “we” of humanity.Table of Contents Introduction: Visions of Humanity: Actors, Culture, Practices Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Sönke Kunkel, and SebastianJobs Chapter 1. The Human in Human Rights Suzy Killmister Objects Chapter 2. Hearts, Minds, and Skulls: The International Debate on the Nature of Humanity in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Michael L. Krenn Chapter 3. In Search of Biblical Mesopotamia: Visions of Humanity in US Archaeological Excavations in Iraq,1880–1910 Sarah Epping Work Chapter 4. Tensions of “Humanity”: Jewish Philanthropy and Refugee Crises in Eastern Europe,1881–1914 Barbara Lambauer Chapter 5. “The Whole Organism of Humanity”: The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom’s Campaign for Women’s Rights as Universal Rights, c. 1919 Andrew M. Johnston Chapter 6. “A New Humanity” for the Poor: Liberation Theology and Visions of Revolutionary Justice in 1960s Guatemala Betsy Konefal Chapter 7. Engineering Empathy: Humanity, Culture, and the Battle against Apartheid in South Africa, 1948–1994 Nicholas J. Cull Sounds Chapter 8. Choreographing Humanity in the 1960s: Maurice Béjart and the Symphony No. 9 Stéphanie Gonçalves Chapter 9. Musical Humanism:Yehudi Menuhin and UNESCO’s International Music Council,1969–1975 Anaïs Fléchet Chapter 10. “We Are the World”:Visions of Humanity in 1980s Charity Songs Tobias Hof Afterword: Languages of Common Humanity Siep Stuurman

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