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

Sebastian Jobs is assistant professor of North American history at the JFK Institute (FU Berlin) and a former researcher at the German Historical Institute (Washington, DC) and at UNC (Chapel Hill). His first monograph about military victory parades in New York City explored performance and ritual as methods for the writing of history.