Contents

pp v-vii

List of figures

pp viii-viii

Notes on contributors

pp ix-xi

Acknowledgements

pp xii-xii

1 - The Red Cross Movement: Continuities, changes and challenges

pp 1-26

2 - Certainty, compassion and the ingrained arrogance of humanitarians

pp 27-44

Part I: - The Movement’s foundational ‘myths’

pp 45-46

3 - The Americans lead the way?: The United States Sanitary Commission and the development of the Red Cross Movement, 1861–1871

pp 47-62

4 - 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

pp 63-80

5 - The early history of the Red Cross Society of China and its relation to the Red Cross Movement

pp 81-96

6 - Failure to launch: The American Red Cross in an era of contested neutrality, 1914–1917

pp 97-112

Part II: - Turning points

pp 113-114

7 - Challenging the colonial and the international: The American Red Cross in the last war of Cuban independence (1895–1898)

pp 115-129

8 - Realignment in the aftermath of war: The League of Red Cross Societies, the Australian Red Cross and its Junior Red Cross in the 1920s

pp 130-147

9 - The ‘British Red Cross still exists’, 1947–1974: Finding a role after the Second World War

pp 148-163

10 - Feed the hungry – no matter what?: The Norwegian Red Cross and Biafra, 1967–1970

pp 164-178

Part III: - The Red Cross’s <italic>modus operandi</italic>

pp 179-180

11 - ‘A cog in the great wheel of mercy’: The New Zealand Red Cross and the international Red Cross Movement

pp 181-198

12 - Coming of age in the crucible of war: The First World War and the expansion of the Canadian Red Cross Society’s humanitarian vision

pp 199-212

13 - The 1938 International Committee of the Red Cross Conference: Humanitarian diplomacy and the cultures of appeasement in Britain

pp 213-229

14 - ‘£50,000 is too small a fine to pay’: The British Red Cross and the Spanish refugees of 1939

pp 230-244

15 - The British Red Cross Society and the ‘parcels crisis’ of 1940–1941

pp 245-263

16 - The Red Cross in wartime Macau and its global connections

pp 264-281

17 - A humanitarian and national obligation: A comparison between the Dutch Red Cross 1940–1945, and the Dutch East Indies Red Cross, 1942–1950

pp 282-295

Index

pp 296-308