Calculating compassion (eBook)

Humanity and relief in war, Britain 1870-1914

Rebecca Gill (Autor)

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2016
272 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-1064-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Calculating compassion examines the origins of British relief work in late-nineteenth-century wars on the continent and the fringes of Empire. The author draws on new archival research to reveal the preoccupations of nineteenth-century relief workers, and the legacies for relief work today.

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Calculating compassion examines the origins of British relief work in late-nineteenth-century wars on the continent and the fringes of Empire. Commencing with the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71, it follows distinguished surgeons and 'lady amateurs' as they distributed aid to wounded soldiers and distressed civilians, often in the face of considerable suspicion. Dispensing with the notion of shared 'humanitarian' ideals, it examines the complex, and sometimes controversial, origins of organised relief, and illuminates the emergence of practices and protocols still recognisable in the delivery of overseas aid. This book is intended for students, academics and relief practitioners interested in the historical concerns of first generation relief agencies such as the British Red Cross Society and the Save the Children Fund, and their legacies today.

Autor

Rebecca Gill is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Huddersfield

Inhalt

Introduction: Calculating compassion in war
Part I. A new vocation: British relief in war: France, 1870– 71
1. The origins of British relief in war
2. Accounting for compassion: British relief in the Franco-Prussian war, 1870–71
Part II. Knowledge of suffering and the politics of relief: The Balkans, 1876–78
3. New humanitarian politics: ‘victim’ nations and the brotherhood of Humanity
4. Neutrality and the politics of aid in insurgency: British relief to the Balkans, 1876-78
Part III: The boundaries of compassion: humanity and relief in British wars, c.1884–1914
5. Scientific humanitarianism and British ‘tyranny’ in South Africa
6. The rational application of compassion? relief, reconstruction, and disputes over civilian suffering in the Anglo-Boer War, 1899–1902
7. Neutrality, proficiency and the feminisation of aid: from the ‘scramble for Africa’ to the Great war
Conclusion: Humanity and relief in war and peace
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.5.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): Bertrand Taithe
• Zusatzinfo: Halftones, black & white
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Neuzeit bis 1918
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Balkans • Boer War • British colonial wars • British concentration camps • British policy • british soldiers • Child welfare • Franco-Prussian War • Humanity • Loyd Lindsay • nationalist violence • nineteenth-century relief workers • Ottoman counter-insurgency • post-war period • Relief work • Russo-Turkish War • South Africa
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-1064-4 / 1526110644
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-1064-0 / 9781526110640