Review: Review of: Abruzzo, Margaret. Polemical Pain: Slavery, Cruelty, and the Rise of Humanitarianism. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. 9780801898525. RRP $55.00 paperback; and Stamatov, Peter. The Origins of Global Humanitarianism: Religion, Empires, and Advocacy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 9781107021730. RRP $90.00 hardback. RRP $72.00 e-book.
