Calculating Compassion: Humanity and Relief in War, Britain 1870-1914

By Rebecca Gill

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719078105
• ISBN13: 9780719078101
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"