Rebecca Gill

Calculating compassion

Humanity and relief in war, Britain 1870-1914

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9780719078101
• ISBN-10: 0719078105
• Artikelnr.: 38479337

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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