(Source: Bloomsbury)
Bloomsbury is
publishing a new book on the attempts to control warfare in the half-century
before the outbreak of World War I.
ABOUT THE BOOK
War, Law and
Humanity tells the story of the transatlantic
campaign to either mitigate the destructive forces of the battlefield, or
prevent wars from being waged altogether, in the decades prior to the
disastrous summer of 1914. Starting with the Crimean War of the 1850s, James
Crossland traces this campaign to control warfare from the scandalous barracks
of Scutari to the shambolic hospitals of the American Civil War, from the
bloody sieges of Paris and Erzurum to the combative conference halls of Geneva
and The Hague, uncovering the intertwined histories of a generation of
humanitarians, surgeons, pacifists and utopians who were shocked into action by
the barbarism and depravities of war. By examining the fascinating personal
accounts of these figures, Crossland illuminates the complex motivations and
influential actions of those committed to the campaign to control war,
demonstrating how their labours built the foundation for the ideas – enshrined
in our own times as international norms – that soldiers need caring for,
weapons need restricting and wars need rules.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James
Crossland is Senior Lecturer in International
History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He is the author of Britain
and the International Committee of the Red Cross, 1939-1945 (2014),
the first study of Britain's humanitarian policy during the Second World War.
He has published widely on the history of wartime humanitarianism,
international law and the Red Cross movement.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Dramatis Personae
Timeline
Introduction – A Time for Angels
1. The Crimean Crucible
2. Citizen-Humanitarians
3. The Union Way
4. Visions from Geneva
5. How Best to Serve the Suffering?
6. When Angels Go to War
7. Humanity and Necessity
8. The Sound of Drums
9. Enter the Peace-Seekers
10. Regulations for Apocalypse
Conclusion – 1914: The Campaign Ends?
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Dramatis Personae
Timeline
Introduction – A Time for Angels
1. The Crimean Crucible
2. Citizen-Humanitarians
3. The Union Way
4. Visions from Geneva
5. How Best to Serve the Suffering?
6. When Angels Go to War
7. Humanity and Necessity
8. The Sound of Drums
9. Enter the Peace-Seekers
10. Regulations for Apocalypse
Conclusion – 1914: The Campaign Ends?
Bibliography
Index
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