Mobilizing mercy : a history of the Canadian Red Cross /

For more than a century the Canadian Red Cross Society has provided help and comfort to vulnerable people at home and abroad. In the first detailed national history of the organization, Sarah Glassford reveals how the European-born Red Cross movement came to Canada and took root, and why it flourish...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Glassford, Sarah Carlene, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.
Colección:McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 45.
Temas:
Canadian Red Cross Society > History.
Canadian Red Cross Society
Voluntary Health Agencies > history
Relief Work > history
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
MEDICAL > History.
Canada
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Men, medicine, and militia, 1885-1896
  • To South Africa and back, 1896-1914
  • A society transformed by war, 1914-1918
  • The battlefields of peace, 1919-1939
  • Golden age or troubled times? 1939-1945
  • Mid-century modern Red Cross, 1946-1970.

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