TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gill,Rebecca
TI  - Calculating compassion: humanity and relief in war, Britain 1870-1914 
T2  - Humanitarianism : key debates and new approaches
SN  - 9780719078101
AV  - HV555.G7 G55 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York : 
PB  - Manchester University Press, 
KW  - Humanitarian assistance, British
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - War relief
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - War victims
KW  - Services for
N1  - HKBU library; YT2025 M08
N2  - 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
ER  -