Introduction
Indigenous protection at the humanitarian apogee
Metropolitan contexts: Thomas Hodgkin, science and medicine
Anti-slavery, colonization and emigration: 'civilizing' West Africa
Free trade versus free labour: British India and the West Indies
Making colonization civilizing: the Aborigines' Protection Society
Dealing with the devil: systematic colonization in Australasia
Conscripts of civilization: North American networks
Betrayal in the borderlands: Lesotho and New Zealand
Conclusion.