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The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal / Marian Moser Jones.
Author
Jones, Marian Moser, 1969-
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Book
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English
Published/Created
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2013.
Description
xxvii, 375 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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HV577 .J66 2013
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Subject(s)
Disaster relief
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United States
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History
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Humanitarian assistance, American
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History
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Red Cross and Red Crescent
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American National Red Cross
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History
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American Association of the Red Cross
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History
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Barton, Clara 1821-1912
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Boardman, Mabel Thorp 1860-1946
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Summary note
Overview: In dark skirts and bloodied boots, Clara Barton fearlessly ventured onto Civil War battlefields to tend to wounded soldiers. She later worked with civilians in Europe during the Franco-Prussian War, lobbied legislators to ratify the Geneva conventions, and founded and ran the American Red Cross. The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal tells the story of the charitable organization from its start in 1881, through its humanitarian aid during wars, natural disasters, and the Depression, to its relief efforts of the 1930s. Marian Moser Jones illustrates the tension between the organization's founding principles of humanity and neutrality and the political, economic, and moral pressures that sometimes caused it to favor one group at the expense of another. This expansive book narrates the stories of: U.S. natural disasters such as the Jacksonville yellow fever epidemic of 1888, the Sea Islands hurricane of 1893, and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake; crises abroad, including the 1892 Russian famine and the Armenian massacres of 1895-96; efforts to help civilians affected by the civil war in Cuba; power struggles within the American Red Cross leadership and subsequent alliances with the American government; the organization's expansion during World War I; race riots in East St. Louis, Chicago, and Tulsa between 1917 and 1921; help for African American and white Southerners after the Mississippi flood of 1927; relief projects during the Dust Bowl and after the New Deal. An epilogue relates the history of the American Red Cross since the beginning of World War II and illuminates the organization's current practices as well as its international reputation.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Miss Barton goes to Washington
Transatlantic transplant
National calamities
The misfortunes of other nations
Cuba and controversy
Barton vs. Boardman
Shifting ground
Establishment
Fighting on two fronts
Triage for terror
Baptism in mud
Scorched earth
A new deal for disasters.
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ISBN
9781421407388 ((hdbk. ; : alk. paper))
1421407388 ((hdbk. ; : alk. paper))
9781421408231 ((electronic))
1421408236 ((electronic))
LCCN
2012015754
OCLC
786245443
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