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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Glassford, Sarah Carlene, 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.
Series:McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 45.
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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