This series offers a new interdisciplinary reflection on one of the most important and yet understudied areas in history, politics and cultural practices: humanitarian aid and its responses to crises and conflicts. The series seeks to define afresh the boundaries and methodologies applied to the study of humanitarian relief and so-called humanitarian events. The series includes monographs and carefully selected thematic edited collections which cross disciplinary boundaries and bring fresh perspectives to the historical, political and cultural understanding of the rationale and impact of humanitarian relief work.
Islamic charities and Islamic humanism in troubled times
Jonathan Benthall
Humanitarian aid, genocide and mass killings: Mdecins sans Frontires, the Rwandan experience, 198297
Jean-Herv Bradol and Marc Le Pape
Calculating compassion: Humanity and relief in war, Britain 18701914
Rebecca Gill
Humanitarian intervention in the long nineteenth century
Alexis Heraclides and Ada Dialla
The militaryhumanitarian complex in Afghanistan
Eric James and Tim Jacoby
Global humanitarianism and media culture
Michael Lawrence and Rachel Tavernor (eds)
A history of humanitarianism, 17751989: In the name of others
Silvia Salvatici
Donors, technical assistance and public administration in Kosovo
Mary Venner
The NGO CARE and food aid from America 194580: Showered with kindness?
Heike Wieters
The Red Cross Movement
Myths, practices and turning points
Edited by Neville Wylie, Melanie Oppenheimer and James Crossland
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Contents
Neville Wylie, Melanie Oppenheimer and James Crossland
Davide Rodogno
James Crossland
Jon Arrizabalaga, Guillermo Snchez-Martnez and J. Carlos Garca-Reyes
Caroline Reeves
Branden Little
Francisco Javier Martnez
Melanie Oppenheimer
Rosemary Cresswell
Eldrid Mageli
Margaret Tennant
Sarah Glassford
Rebecca Gill
Kerrie Holloway
Neville Wylie
Helena F. S. Lopes
Leo van Bergen
Jon Arrizabalaga is Research Professor in the History of Science at the Spanish National Council for Scientific Research (CSIC-IMF), Barcelona. During recent years, his research has been mainly focused on humanitarian action and war medicine in modern Spain. He edited the special section War, Empire, Science, Progress, Humanitarianism: Debate and Practice within the International Red Cross Movement from 1863 to the Interwar Period, Asclepio, 66:1 (2014).
Rosemary Cresswell (formerly Wall) is Senior Lecturer in Global History at the University of Hull, UK. She is the Principal Investigator for the project Crossing Boundaries: The History of First Aid in Britain and France, 19091989, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (grant number AH/N003330/1), and is writing a history of the British Red Cross.
James Crossland is Senior Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University. He is the author of two books, Britain and the International Committee of the Red Cross (2014), and War, Law and Humanity: The Campaign to Control Warfare, 18531914 (2018), both of which chronicle the Red Crosss development in relation to the changing nature of warfare in the modern era.
J. Carlos Garca-Reyes is a research manager at Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Madrid, Spain). He was research fellow JAE-CSIC at the Mil i Fontanals Institution (IMF-CSIC, Barcelona, 200813). Having taken his M.A. in the history of science at the Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona (2009), he is now working on a Ph.D. thesis on the origins and early history of the Spanish Red Cross.
Rebecca Gill is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Huddersfield, and researches the history of humanitarian organisations in Britain. Her work on this topic includes Calculating Compassion: Humanity and Relief in War, Britain 18701914 (Manchester University Press, 2013). She is currently working on an Arts and Humanities Research Council project on the relief worker and pacifist Emily Hobhouse.
Sarah Glassford is the archivist in the University of Windsor Leddy Librarys Archives, Rare Books and Special Collections unit, in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She is the author of Mobilizing Mercy: A History of the Canadian Red Cross (2017), and co-editor of two volumes exploring Canadian womens history during the world wars.
Kerrie Holloway is a Research Officer with the Humanitarian Policy Group at the Overseas Development Institute. She holds a Ph.D. in history from Queen Mary University of London, and her thesis analysed the National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief and its work with Spanish refugees in France in early 1939.
Branden Little is Associate Professor of History at Weber State University in the United States. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (2009). An award-winning author and teacher, he has published essays on humanitarian relief and naval history.
Helena F. S. Lopes is Lecturer in Modern Chinese History and Senior Research Associate in the History of Hong Kong at the University of Bristol. She holds a D.Phil in history from the University of Oxford, where she is currently an associate member of the Faculty of History. Her doctoral thesis analysed Sino-Portuguese relations during the Second World War, with a particular focus on neutrality and collaboration in Macau.
Eldrid Mageli is a historian, researcher and teacher, and was formerly senior advisor at the Red Cross headquarters in Oslo. Her principal publications include Med rett til hjelpe: Historien om Norges Rde Kors (2014) the 150-year history of the Norwegian Red Cross and NGO Activism in Calcutta: Exploring Unnayan 19731997 (2009).
Francisco Javier Martnez works as a researcher at the University of vora, Portugal. He investigates the history of medicine, public health and humanitarian relief in contemporary Morocco, especially in relation to Spanish and French colonial interventions. He has recently co-edited, with John Chircop, Mediterranean Quarantines, 17501914: Space, Identity and Power
