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DePies, Gregory John.

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Humanitarian Empire: The Red Cross in Japan, 1877-1945.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Humanitarian Empire: The Red Cross in Japan, 1877-1945./
Author:	DePies, Gregory John.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2013,
Description:	299 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-12(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-12A(E).
Subject:	Asian history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3590959
ISBN:	9781303312243

Humanitarian Empire: The Red Cross in Japan, 1877-1945.
DePies, Gregory John.

Humanitarian Empire: The Red Cross in Japan, 1877-1945. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2013 - 299 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-12(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2013.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

This dissertation presents a critical perspective on modern practices of humanitarianism by following histories of the imperial-era Japanese Red Cross Society (JRCS) from its inception in 1877 until the formal dissolution of the Japanese empire in 1945. In the decades after its founding the JRCS became the most prominent humanitarian institution in the Japanese empire and the largest national Red Cross society in the world, drawing its leaders from among the most powerful of the ruling elites as well as the imperial family. As an state-sanctioned voluntary organization for the relief of human suffering, the JRCS continuously promoted the philosophies and institutions of humanitarianism by applying them across a wide range of political, social, and economic spheres. I argue that the leadership of the JRCS in efforts to rescue the sufferers of war, natural disasters, and disease made it an exemplar of humanitarian imperialism, or the continuous expansion of political domination by state and non-state agencies which operated according to a logic of promoting the life, health and well being of ordinary people.

ISBN: 9781303312243Subjects--Topical Terms:

1099323
Asian history.

Humanitarian Empire: The Red Cross in Japan, 1877-1945.
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