Red Cross Movement

Neville Wylie is Deputy Principal and Professor of International History at the University of StirlingMelanie Oppenheimer is Professor and Chair of History at Flinders UniversityJames Crossland is a Senior Lecturer in History at Liverpool John Moores University

'In this rich collection, 18 authors analyse the history of the Red Cross Movement, with a strong focus on the national societies.'Cédric Cotter, Medicine, Conflict and Survival'This volume offers a scholarly smorgasbord on the impact of the Red Cross.'Judith Godden, Australian Historical Studies

• Introduction1 The Red Cross movement: continuities, changes and challenges – Neville Wylie, Melanie Oppenheimer and James Crossland2 Certainty, compassion and the ingrained arrogance of humanitarians – Davide RodognoPart I: The Movement’s foundational ‘myths’3 The Americans lead the way? The United States Sanitary Commission and the development of the Red Cross movement, 1861-1871 – James Crossland4 Intertwined stories of war humanitarianism: the British Order of St John of Jerusalem and the Red Cross in the Spanish Civil Wars of the 1870s – Jon Arrizabalaga, Sánchez-Martínez and J. Carlos García-Reyes5 The early history of the Red Cross Society of China and its relation to the Red Cross Movement – Caroline Reeves6 Failure to launch: the American Red Cross in an era of contested neutrality, 1914-1917 – Branden LittlePart II: Turning points7 Challenging the colonial and the international: the American Red Cross in the last war of Cuban independence (1895-98) – Francisco Javier Martínez-Antonio8 Re-alignment in the aftermath of war: the League of Red Cross Societies, the Australian Red Cross and its Junior Red Cross in the 1920s – Melanie Oppenheimer9 The ‘British Red Cross still exists’, 1947-74: finding a role after the Second World War – Rosemary Cresswell10 Feed the hungry – no matter what? The Norwegian Red Cross and Biafra, 1967–70 – Eldrid MageliPart III: The Red Cross’ modus operandi11 ‘A Cog in the Great Wheel of Mercy’: the New Zealand Red Cross and the International Red Cross movement – Margaret Tennant12 Coming of age in the crucible of war: The First World War and the expansion of the Canadian Red Cross Society’s humanitarian vision – Sarah Glassford13 The 1938 International Committee of the Red Cross Conference: Humanitarian diplomacy and the cultures of appeasement in Britain – Rebecca Gill14 ‘£50,000 is too small a fine to pay’: the British Red Cross and the Spanish refugees of 1939 – Kerrie Holloway15 The British Red Cross Society and the ‘parcels crisis’ of 1940-1 – Neville Wylie16 The Red Cross in wartime Macau and its global connections – Helena F.S. Lopes17 A humanitarian and national obligation: a comparison between the Dutch Red Cross, 1940-5, and the Dutch East-Indies Red Cross, 1942-50 – Leo van BergenIndex