Gill, Rebecca (2009) “The Rational Administration of Compassion”: The Origins of British Relief in War. Le Mouvement Social, 227 (2). pp. 9-26. ISSN 0027-2671
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Investigating the origins of aid work in Britain, this article examines the formation of humanitarian relief as a new field of vocational endeavour distinguished by an ethos of “rational compassion”. It analyses the competing grounds for intervention produced by the rival British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War and the Quaker Friends’ War Victims’ Relief Fund in the Franco-Prussian War, and the alternative meanings and moral investments made in the increasingly systematised administration of relief. In doing so, it utilises organisational papers and the first-hand testimony of relief workers to document the development of novel relief practices and roles that have received little historical attention.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DC France D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain D History General and Old World > D History (General) |
Schools: | School of Music, Humanities and Media |
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Depositing User: | Cherry Edmunds |
Date Deposited: | 08 Oct 2009 10:33 |
Last Modified: | 28 Aug 2021 10:51 |
URI: | http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/5796 |
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