1.Towards a history of humanitarian intervention / D.J.B. Trim and Brendan Simms Part I.Early-Modern Precedents:2.'If a prince use tyrannie towards his people': interventions on behalf of foreign populations in early-modern Europe / D.J.B. Trim;3.The Protestant interest and the history of humanitarian intervention, c.1685-c.1756 Part II.The Great Powers and the Ottoman Empire:5.'From an umpire to a competitor': Castlereagh, Canning and the issue of international intervention in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars / John Bew;6.Intervening in the Jewish question, 1840-1878 Part III.Intervening in Africa:10.The price of legitimacy in humanitarian intervention: Britain, the right of search and the abolition of the West African slave trade, 1807-1867 / Maeve Ryan;11.British anti-slave trade and anti-slavery policy in East Africa, Arabia, and Turkey in the late nineteenth century Part IV.Non-European States:13.Humanitarian intervention, democracy, and imperialism: the American war with Spain, 1898, and after / Mike Sewell;14.The innovation of the Jackson-Vanik Amendment Part V.Postscript:16.Humanitarian intervention since 1990 and 'liberal interventionism' / Matthew Jamison;17.Conclusion: humanitarian intervention in historical perspective | 
