Calculating compassion
Humanity and relief in war, Britain 1870–1914
by Rebecca Gill, Bertrand Taithe
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The history of relief work is in its infancy. Calculating compassion draws on new archival research to reveal the priorities of nineteenth-century relief workers, and the legacies of their preoccupations for relief work today. Tracing the early history of familiar British aid agencies such as the British Red Cross Society (founded 1870) and the Save the Children Fund UK (founded 1919) - as well as those less familiar and now defunct - this book challenges any notion of a common 'humanitarian' ideal. Instead, it questions the current tendency to advocate a return to the clarity of founding principles by examining relief agencies' complex, and at times contentious, origins. Here are revealed the domestic anxieties which stimulated the organisation of relief for suffering strangers as well as the role of aid in the projection of British interests abroad. Following intrepid individuals as they dispensed blankets and Bovril, first aid and pyjamas in the Franco-Prussian and Russo-Turkish wars of the 1870s, as well as British wars of empire in the Sudan and South Africa, Calculating compassion considers relief workers' enduring practices and habits-of-mind, and some of the unintended consequences of their efforts. Rather than simply responding to news of distant suffering, those delivering aid were instrumental in the stimulation of public concern - and here relief workers contributed to a politics of humanity which had lasting influence on the history of domestic and foreign politics in Britain. New bonds of solidarity were proclaimed but not all, it seemed, were equal in the brotherhood of humanity, whether at home or abroad. This book is intended for students, academics and relief professionals interested in placing relief work into its political and social context. -
Author Biography
Rebecca Gill is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Huddersfield; Bertrand Taithe is Professor of Cultural History at The University of Manchester
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date August 2013
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780719078101
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 100 USD
- Pages272
- ReadershipGeneral/trade
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions234 X 156 Millimeters
- IllustrationHalftones, black & white
- SeriesHumanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches
- Reference CodeIPR3089
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