Calculating Compassion (eBook)
272 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-1064-0 (ISBN)
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.
Rebecca Gill is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Huddersfield
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
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.5.2016 |
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Reihe/Serie | Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches |
Zusatzinfo | Halftones, black & white |
Verlagsort | Manchester |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 160 x 160 mm |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Neuzeit bis 1918 |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik | |
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 |
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