British Humanitarian Activity In Russia 1890 1923

Author : Luke Kelly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319651903

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British Humanitarian Activity in Russia, 1890-1923 by Luke Kelly Pdf

This book analyses the efforts of British civil society to help a Russia seen to be struggling between 1890 and the 1920s. Luke Kelly seeks to show why churches, pressure groups, charities, politicians and journalists came to promote religious and political liberty and to relieve the victims of famines in late-tsarist and early communist Russia. By focusing on the roles of Christian, Jewish and liberal interests in deploying humanitarian solutions, Kelly shows how humanitarianism developed ‘from below’, while also examining the growth of a broader humanitarian discourse in the context of the Anglo-Russian relationship.

Author : Emily Baughan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520343719

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Saving the Children by Emily Baughan Pdf

Saving the Children analyzes the intersection of liberal internationalism and imperialism through the history of the humanitarian organization Save the Children, from its formation during the First World War through the era of decolonization. Whereas Save the Children claimed that it was "saving children to save the world," the vision of the world it sought to save was strictly delimited, characterized by international capitalism and colonial rule. Emily Baughan's groundbreaking analysis, across fifty years and eighteen countries, shows that Britain's desire to create an international order favorable to its imperial rule shaped international humanitarianism. In revealing that modern humanitarianism and its conception of childhood are products of the early twentieth-century imperial economy, Saving the Children argues that the contemporary aid sector must reckon with its past if it is to forge a new future.

Author : Jérôme aan de Wiel
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633864104

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Ireland's Helping Hand to Europe by Jérôme aan de Wiel Pdf

Post-war Marshall Plan aid to Europe and indeed Ireland is well documented, but practically nothing is known about simultaneous Irish aid to Europe. This book provides a full record of the aid – mainly food but also clothes, blankets, medicines, etc. – that Ireland donated to continental Europe, including France, the Netherlands, Hungary, the Balkans, Italy, and zones of occupied Germany. Starting with Ireland’s neutral wartime record, often wrongly presented as pro-German when Ireland in fact unofficially favoured the western Allies, Jerome aan de Wiel explains why Éamon de Valera’s government sent humanitarian aid to the devastated continent. His book analyses the logistics of collection and distribution of supplies sent abroad as far as the Greek islands. Despite some alleged Cold-War hijacking of Irish relief – and this humanitarianism was not above the politics of that East-West confrontation – it became mostly a story of hope, generosity and European Christian solidarity. Rich archival records from Ireland and the European beneficiary countries, as well as contemporary local and national newspapers across Europe, allow the author to measure and describe not only the official but also the popular response to Irish relief schemes. This work is illustrated with contemporary photographs and some key graphs and tables that show the extent of the aid programme.

Author : Norbert Götz,Georgina Brewis,Steffen Werther
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108493529

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Humanitarianism in the Modern World by Norbert Götz,Georgina Brewis,Steffen Werther Pdf

A fresh look at two centuries of humanitarian history through a moral economy approach focusing on appeals, allocation, and accounting.

Author : Andrew A. Gentes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000378597

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Russia's Sakhalin Penal Colony, 1849–1917 by Andrew A. Gentes Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive history of the genesis, existence, and demise of Imperial Russia’s largest penal colony, made famous by Chekhov in a book written following his visit there in 1890. Based on extensive original research in archival documents, published reports, and memoirs, the book is also a social history of the late imperial bureaucracy and of the subaltern society of criminals and exiles; an examination of the tsarist state’s failed efforts at reform; an exploration of Russian imperialism in East Asia and Russia’s acquisition of Sakhalin Island in the face of competition from Japan; and an anthropological and literary study of the Sakhalin landscape and its associated values and ideologies. The Sakhalin penal colony became one of the largest penal colonies in history. The book’s conclusion prompts important questions about contemporary prisons and their relationship to state and society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198916123

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by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cord-Christian Casper
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110645873

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Against Anarchy by Cord-Christian Casper Pdf

'Against Anarchy' investigates the function of Anarchism in Early Modernist political fiction. The study explains how political novels from 1886 to 1911 narrate and evaluate the function of Anarchists as embodiments of a radical space beyond politics. The literary prevalence of Anarchists has so far not been connected systematically to its literary and political functions. The study addresses this research gap in detailed analyses of a radical theme in narratives by Joseph Conrad, Henry James, and G.K. Chesterton. It shows that each novel presents strategies of demarcation that allow turn-of-the-century Britain to project its cultural anxieties upon an imagined other, the dreaded figure labelled ‘Anarchist’. The political radical is set up as the foil against which comforting self-descriptions can be maintained. Rather than merely reproducing this boundary work, however, the novels also evaluate its function, both for the respective political system and for their own narrative capabilities — and present the consequences incurred by the loss of an anarchist outside. 'Against Anarchy' is a thorough cultural historiography of the politically other and marginal. At the same time, the study demonstrates that close attention to the specific literary image of Anarchism allows for a re-evaluation of political thought beyond its immediate historical moment — a literary political theory in its own right.

Author : Anton Weiss-Wendt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474279871

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Documents on the Genocide Convention from the American, British, and Russian Archives by Anton Weiss-Wendt Pdf

This document collection highlights the legal challenges, historical preconceptions, and political undercurrents that had informed the UN Genocide Convention, its form, contents, interpretation, and application. Featuring 436 documents from thirteen repositories in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia, the collection is an essential resource for students and scholars working in the field of comparative genocide studies. The selected records span the Cold War period and reflect on specific issues relevant to the Genocide Convention, as established at the time by the parties concerned. The types of documents reproduced in the collection include interoffice correspondence, memorandums, whitepapers, guidelines for national delegations, commissioned reports, draft letters, telegrams, meeting minutes, official and unofficial inquiries, formal statements, and newspaper and journal articles. On a classification curve, the featured records range from unrestricted to top secret. Taken in the aggregate, the documents reproduced in this collection suggest primacy of politics over humanitarian and/or legal considerations in the UN Genocide Convention.

Author : Mark Swatek-Evenstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107061927

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A History of Humanitarian Intervention by Mark Swatek-Evenstein Pdf

An examination of the historical narratives surrounding humanitarian intervention, presenting an undogmatic, alternative history of human rights protection.

Author : Akaby Nassibian
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003808572

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Britain and the Armenian Question by Akaby Nassibian Pdf

First published in 1984 Britain and the Armenian Question examines the direction, changes, and ramifications of British policy towards Armenia during 1915 to 1923. The author has made extensive use of parliamentary papers and those of the Cabinet, Foreign Office, War Office and India office as well as documents produced by pro- Armenian groups during the period. This material is used to build up a detailed and incontrovertible study of British policy, which shows the extent to which it was governed by self-interest even when support for Armenia was its most altruistic. Once Britain secured predominance in the Persian Gulf, she lost all her interest in Armenian territory and the dilemma was posed when the war ended: not only did she no longer need Armenia but also had to decide who to support in Russia. Armenia lost out on all sides and was compelled eventually to adapt herself to the policies of the surrounding countries. This is an interesting read for scholars and researchers of international relations and international political history.

Author : Jean-Marie Henckaerts,Carolin Alvermann,Comité international de la Croix-Rouge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521808996

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Customary International Humanitarian Law by Jean-Marie Henckaerts,Carolin Alvermann,Comité international de la Croix-Rouge Pdf

Customary International Humanitarian Law, Volume I: Rules is a comprehensive analysis of the customary rules of international humanitarian law applicable in international and non-international armed conflicts. In the absence of ratifications of important treaties in this area, this is clearly a publication of major importance, carried out at the express request of the international community. In so doing, this study identifies the common core of international humanitarian law binding on all parties to all armed conflicts. Comment Don:RWI.

Author : Richard Bach Jensen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107656697

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The Battle against Anarchist Terrorism by Richard Bach Jensen Pdf

This is the first global history of the secret diplomatic and police campaign that was waged against anarchist terrorism from 1878 to the 1920s. Anarchist terrorism was at that time the dominant form of terrorism and for many continued to be synonymous with terrorism as late as the 1930s. Ranging from Europe and the Americas to the Middle East and Asia, Richard Bach Jensen explores how anarchist terrorism emerged as a global phenomenon during the first great era of economic and social globalization at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries and reveals why some nations were so much more successful in combating this new threat than others. He shows how the challenge of dealing with this new form of terrorism led to the fundamental modernization of policing in many countries and also discusses its impact on criminology and international law.

Author : Joanne Laycock,Francesca Piana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-08-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526179059

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Aid to Armenia by Joanne Laycock,Francesca Piana Pdf

This book critically examines the history of humanitarianism and intervention on behalf of Armenia and Armenians from the late nineteenth century to the post-Soviet era. Examining a diverse set of case studies, the contributors show how the case of Armenia informs histories of humanitarianism and, in turn, how the history of humanitarianism illuminates the history of Armenia.

Author : Friederike Kind-Kovács
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253062185

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Budapest's Children by Friederike Kind-Kovács Pdf

In the aftermath of World War I, international organizations descended upon the destitute children living in the rubble of Budapest and the city became a testing ground for how the West would handle the most vulnerable residents of a former enemy state. Budapest's Children reconstructs how Budapest turned into a laboratory of transnational humanitarian intervention. Friederike Kind-Kovács explores the ways in which migration, hunger, and destitution affected children's lives, casting light on children's particular vulnerability in times of distress. Drawing on extensive archival research, Kind-Kovács reveals how Budapest's children, as iconic victims of the war's aftermath, were used to mobilize humanitarian sentiments and practices throughout Europe and the United States. With this research, Budapest's Children investigates the dynamic interplay between local Hungarian organizations, international humanitarian donors, and the child relief recipients. In tracing transnational relief encounters, Budapest's Children reveals how intertwined postwar internationalism and nationalism were and how child relief reinforced revisionist claims and global inequalities that still reverberate today.

Author : Stephen Velychenko
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442641327

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State Building in Revolutionary Ukraine by Stephen Velychenko Pdf

State Building in Revolutionary Ukraine examines six attempts to create governments on Ukrainian territories between 1917 and 1922. Focusing on how political leaders formed and staffed administrations, this study shows that in Ukraine during this time, there was an available pool of able administrators sufficiently competent in Ukrainian to work as bureaucrats in the independent national governments. These people could sometimes implement policies, a significant accomplishment in light of the upheavals of the time. Stephen Velychenko compares Ukrainian efforts to create an independent national government with the analogous successful efforts made in Russia, Poland, Ireland and Czechoslovakia. He questions the notion that Ukrainian attempts at national independence failed because its society was 'incomplete' and its leaders unable to organize an effective administration. Pointing out that Bolshevik administrations at the time were no more effective in implementing policies than their rivals, Velychenko argues that more effective governance was not one of the reasons for the Russian Bolshevik victory in Ukraine.