Calculating compassion : the 'New Humanitarian' ethos in England 1870-1918
This thesis investigates the emergence of the field of humanitarian intervention in war. From negative connotations of 'excessive sentimentalism' in the late eighteenth / early nineteenth centuries, this thesis charts the rise of more positive notions of rational and humane gift giving in...
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University of Manchester
2005
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.516294 |