A Critical History of the American Red Cross, 1882-1945

It was assumed by many, including the Red Cross, that the Geneva Treaty was being honored, that food parcels were reaching the starving Allied prisoners, and that the Red Cross was relaying accurate information to the homefront concerning the welfare of captive soldiers. Shealy's work provides data from declassified military documents and Red Cross documents deeded to the National Archives and the library of Congress. Coupled with mainstream sources, her research offers a revisionist perspective of the American Red Cross era from 1882 to 1945. Additionally, the Red Cross, usually above reproach, turned the mirror initself with candid monographs written post-WWII to 1950. These discourse, documents and letters reveal the agency's struggle to reconcile itself with policy not always in step with its recipients.

ISBN 0773467068   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780773467064 (What's this?)   Pages 142 Publisher The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd   Volumes 001 Imprint Edwin Mellen Press Ltd   Weight (grammes) 408 Format Hardback   Published in New York Publication date 01 Nov 2003   Series title Symposium S. Non-book description ii, 124 p. ;   Height (mm) 235 Library of Congress HV577.S54   Width (mm) 159 DEWEY 361.76340973   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		Preface
		Acknowledgements
		Introduction		1
Ch. 1		From Europe to the United States		14
Ch. 2		The Red Cross During the Spanish-American War		26
Ch. 3		Expansionist Ideals of a Juvenile Nation		36
Ch. 4		Boardman Opens the Door to Change		39
Ch. 5		Will, Mabel, and their Progeny		49
Ch. 6		The Price of Pregressivism		57
Ch. 7		A New Red Cross		63
Ch. 8		The Test of the 1905 Charter		73
Ch. 9		Ersatz Humanitarianism		81
		Conclusion		104
		Appendices		106
		Bibliography		112
		Index		117

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