Calculating compassion
Subtitle: Humanity and relief in war, Britain 1870-1914
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Sep 03, 2013
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780719078101
Description: The history of relief work is in its infancy. 'Calculating Compassion' draws on new archival research to reveal the preoccupations of 19th-century relief workers, and the legacies 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.
Notes: Source title: Calculating compassion: Humanity and relief in war, Britain 1870-1914 (Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches)