{"product_id":"war-law-and-humanity-the-campaign-to-control-warfare-18531914-9781350041219","title":"War Law and Humanity The Campaign to Control Warfare 18531914","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Crossland\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in International History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBritain and the International Committee of the Red Cross, 1939-1945 \u003c\/i\u003e(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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaders will find no uncritical homage to the peacemakers in this resolutely objective account of political changes during a turbulent half-century of conflict and suffering … James Crossland's patient examination of the decades before World War I is an essential guide to understanding how these fundamental changes in the law of warfare after World War II came to be. * Michigan War Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating work for those interested in the nineteenth century, in the development of political thought, in international relations, military history, and a number of other sub-disciplines ... An important introduction to the subject. * European History Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003eCrossland’s searching autopsy of humanitarian action, inspiration, and deed, persuasively demonstrates that there was no monolithic humanitarian sensibility in the long nineteenth century—instead the variegated impulses that inspired ostensibly and implicitly humanitarian interventions of all types were motivated by a wide and divergent realm of imperatives. A fascinating read. * Branden Little, Associate Professor of History, Weber State University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eSince Geoffrey Best\u003ci\u003e’\u003c\/i\u003es\u003ci\u003e Humanity in Warfare\u003c\/i\u003e (1980), I have never read such a fine work on the attempts to regulate or outcast war. Starting hopefully in the midst of the 19th century and ending horribly in August 1914, War, Law and Humanity tells the tale of military (medical) men, legal and medical humanitarians as well as outright pacifists, debating ideals and realism, quarrelling between each  other and among themselves, while several wars set the scene. It is as fascinating as it is important. * Leo van Bergen, Lecturer in Military-medical History, Royal Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, The Netherlands *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084825358679,"sku":"9781350041219","price":120.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350041219.jpg?v=1762207283","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/war-law-and-humanity-the-campaign-to-control-warfare-18531914-9781350041219","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}