This book offers new and exciting scholarship on the history of the Red Cross Movement by leading historians in the field. It re-imagines and re-evaluates the Red Cross as an institutional network and a key actor in the humanitarian space through two centuries of war and peace.
This book offers new and exciting scholarship on the history of the Red Cross Movement by leading historians in the field. It re-imagines and re-evaluates the Red Cross as an institutional network and a key actor in the humanitarian space through two centuries of war and peace.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Neville Wylie is Deputy Principal and Professor of International History at the University of Stirling Melanie Oppenheimer is Professor and Chair of History at Flinders University James Crossland is a Senior Lecturer in History at Liverpool John Moores University
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Introduction 1 The Red Cross movement: continuities, changes and challenges Neville Wylie, Melanie Oppenheimer and James Crossland 2 Certainty, compassion and the ingrained arrogance of humanitarians Davide Rodogno Part I: The Movement's foundational 'myths' 3 The Americans lead the way? The United States Sanitary Commission and the development of the Red Cross movement, 1861 1871 James Crossland 4 Intertwined stories of war humanitarianism: the British Order of St John of Jerusalem and the Red Cross in the Spanish Civil Wars of the 1870s Jon Arrizabalaga, Sánchez Martínez and J. Carlos García Reyes 5 The early history of the Red Cross Society of China and its relation to the Red Cross Movement Caroline Reeves 6 Failure to launch: the American Red Cross in an era of contested neutrality, 1914 1917 Branden Little Part II: Turning points 7 Challenging the colonial and the international: the American Red Cross in the last war of Cuban independence (1895 98) Francisco Javier Martínez Antonio 8 Re alignment in the aftermath of war: the League of Red Cross Societies, the Australian Red Cross and its Junior Red Cross in the 1920s Melanie Oppenheimer 9 The 'British Red Cross still exists', 1947 74: finding a role after the Second World War Rosemary Cresswell 10 Feed the hungry no matter what? The Norwegian Red Cross and Biafra, 1967 70 Eldrid Mageli Part III: The Red Cross' modus operandi 11 'A Cog in the Great Wheel of Mercy': the New Zealand Red Cross and the International Red Cross movement Margaret Tennant 12 Coming of age in the crucible of war: The First World War and the expansion of the Canadian Red Cross Society's humanitarian vision Sarah Glassford 13 The 1938 International Committee of the Red Cross Conference: Humanitarian diplomacy and the cultures of appeasement in Britain Rebecca Gill 14 '£50,000 is too small a fine to pay': the British Red Cross and the Spanish refugees of 1939 Kerrie Holloway 15 The British Red Cross Society and the 'parcels crisis' of 1940 1 Neville Wylie 16 The Red Cross in wartime Macau and its global connections Helena F.S. Lopes 17 A humanitarian and national obligation: a comparison between the Dutch Red Cross, 1940 5, and the Dutch East Indies Red Cross, 1942 50 Leo van Bergen Index
Introduction 1 The Red Cross movement: continuities, changes and challenges Neville Wylie, Melanie Oppenheimer and James Crossland 2 Certainty, compassion and the ingrained arrogance of humanitarians Davide Rodogno Part I: The Movement's foundational 'myths' 3 The Americans lead the way? The United States Sanitary Commission and the development of the Red Cross movement, 1861 1871 James Crossland 4 Intertwined stories of war humanitarianism: the British Order of St John of Jerusalem and the Red Cross in the Spanish Civil Wars of the 1870s Jon Arrizabalaga, Sánchez Martínez and J. Carlos García Reyes 5 The early history of the Red Cross Society of China and its relation to the Red Cross Movement Caroline Reeves 6 Failure to launch: the American Red Cross in an era of contested neutrality, 1914 1917 Branden Little Part II: Turning points 7 Challenging the colonial and the international: the American Red Cross in the last war of Cuban independence (1895 98) Francisco Javier Martínez Antonio 8 Re alignment in the aftermath of war: the League of Red Cross Societies, the Australian Red Cross and its Junior Red Cross in the 1920s Melanie Oppenheimer 9 The 'British Red Cross still exists', 1947 74: finding a role after the Second World War Rosemary Cresswell 10 Feed the hungry no matter what? The Norwegian Red Cross and Biafra, 1967 70 Eldrid Mageli Part III: The Red Cross' modus operandi 11 'A Cog in the Great Wheel of Mercy': the New Zealand Red Cross and the International Red Cross movement Margaret Tennant 12 Coming of age in the crucible of war: The First World War and the expansion of the Canadian Red Cross Society's humanitarian vision Sarah Glassford 13 The 1938 International Committee of the Red Cross Conference: Humanitarian diplomacy and the cultures of appeasement in Britain Rebecca Gill 14 '£50,000 is too small a fine to pay': the British Red Cross and the Spanish refugees of 1939 Kerrie Holloway 15 The British Red Cross Society and the 'parcels crisis' of 1940 1 Neville Wylie 16 The Red Cross in wartime Macau and its global connections Helena F.S. Lopes 17 A humanitarian and national obligation: a comparison between the Dutch Red Cross, 1940 5, and the Dutch East Indies Red Cross, 1942 50 Leo van Bergen Index
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