Dunant's Dream - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dunant's Dream write by Caroline Moorehead. This book was released on 1999-07. Dunant's Dream available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The International Red Cross was the inspiration - the dream - of Henri Dunant, a 31 year old Swiss businessman appalled by the butchery and lack of medical care for injured soldiers during the battle of Solferino in 1859. He set out to create an international organization which was not only to alter, irrevocably, the fate of all those wounded in every war, but which moved rapidly into international humanitarian law, refugee work, prison conditions and the tracking of people parted by warfare. Today the Red Cross has 137 national societies and 250 million members. Yet it remains an inscrutable institution - very much the same animal today as in the 1870s - governed by the Swiss alone.
Dunants Dream
Dunants Dream - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dunants Dream write by Ramboro Books. This book was released on 1999-11. Dunants Dream available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Dunant's Dream
Dunant's Dream - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dunant's Dream write by Caroline Moorehead. This book was released on 2001-08-01. Dunant's Dream available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Guarded Neutrality
Guarded Neutrality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Guarded Neutrality write by Susanne Wolf. This book was released on 2013-06-20. Guarded Neutrality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traditionally isolated from mainstream European affairs, in 1914 the Dutch had no major allegiances that bound them to any one side of the conflict. Geographically and economically caught between two of the major belligerents, Great Britain and Germany, the Netherlands was constantly vulnerable to attack from either side. In adopting a position of neutrality at the beginning of the war, the Dutch took a huge gamble. The internment of approximately 50,000 foreign troops in the Netherlands, some for almost the entire four years of the war, provided an important showcase for the Dutch Government to demonstrate its adherence to international law and its impartiality towards the all of the belligerents.
From Slaves to Prisoners of War
From Slaves to Prisoners of War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Slaves to Prisoners of War write by Will Smiley. This book was released on 2018-08-21. From Slaves to Prisoners of War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Ottoman-Russian wars of the eighteenth century reshaped the map of Eurasia and the Middle East, but they also birthed a novel concept - the prisoner of war. For centuries, hundreds of thousands of captives, civilians and soldiers alike, crossed the legal and social boundaries of these empires, destined for either ransom or enslavement. But in the eighteenth century, the Ottoman state and its Russian rival, through conflict and diplomacy, worked out a new system of regional international law. Ransom was abolished; soldiers became prisoners of war; and some slaves gained new paths to release, while others were left entirely unprotected. These rules delineated sovereignty, redefined individuals' relationships to states, and prioritized political identity over economic value. In the process, the Ottomans marked out a parallel, non-Western path toward elements of modern international law. Yet this was not a story of European imposition or imitation-the Ottomans acted for their own reasons, maintaining their commitment to Islamic law. For a time even European empires played by these rules, until they were subsumed into the codified global law of war in the late nineteenth century. This story offers new perspectives on the histories of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, of slavery, and of international law.
