Calculating Compassion: Humanity and Relief in War, Britain 1870-1914 (Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches)

by RebeccaGill (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2013

  $88.42

  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. -- .