Jessie Crossland
Biographic Data
| ID | 1180402 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessie Crossland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessie |
| FAMILY NAME | Crossland |
| SIGNATURE | CROSSLAND J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Murdoch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7739-4288 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
"Radical Warfare's First "Superweapon
This article retraces the forgotten legacy of a percussion triggered shrapnel scattering improvised explosive device (IED), known as the Orsini Bomb. Initially used in an attempt to assassinate Emperor Napoleon III in 1858, in the decades after, the Orsini Bomb was replicated, modified and deployed by regicides, insurgents and terrorists, and mythologised by the press as an omnipresent aspect of such forms of radical warfare. This article present…
Humanitarians at War
Scholarship on the history of the insular, yet global International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has exploded in recent decades, spurred by the forced opening of its archives in the 1980s. Public scrutiny of this supposedly impartial, apolitical humanitarian organization had reached a fever-pitch in the wake of a wave of revelations regarding its indifference and inaction during the most notorious twentieth-century human tragedy. Under publi…
The Korean War and the Post-war Prisoner of War Regime, 1945–1956
This paper examines the framework for the treatment of prisoners of war that emerged after 1945. It focuses on one of the key elements of the post-war prisoner of war (POW) regime, the role of neutral bodies – state authorities acting as ‘protecting powers’ or humanitarian agencies such as the International Committee of the Red Cross – in supervising the implementation of the 1949 POW convention. It examines the importance of neutral supervision …
Britain and the International Committee of the Red Cross, 1939–1945
James Crossland's work traces the history of the International Committee of the Red Cross' struggle to bring humanitarianism to the Second World War, by focusing on its tumultuous relationship with on
Dependence and Divergence, 1941–2
On 20 April 1941, Greece — having resisted the invasion launched by the Italians in October 1940 and the arrival of the Germans in the spring of the following year — finally capitulated to the Axis. In the days that followed, the Wehrmacht rounded up the remaining British and Colonial soldiers that had been sent to Greece’s defence, taking, by the time of the fall of Kalamata on 29 April, a grand total of 11,000 British POWs. A little over a mont…
War and Peace, Barbarism and Civilization in Modern Europe and Its Empires
Barbed Wire Diplomacy
Research into the history of prisoners of war has changed in the last decade. Arieh Kochavi, Simon MacKenzie, Vasilis Vourkoutiotis, Bob Moore, Kent Fedorowich and others have reclaimed the field of Second World War POW history from the grasp of sensationalism, replacing dramatic tales of escape and defiance with unvarnished analysis of the often brutal nature of POW captivity. This shift in analysis has brought with it a new focus on how the liv…
A man of peaceable intent
This article examines the efforts of the vice-president of the international committee of the Red Cross (I.C.R.C.), Carl J. Burckhardt, to broker peace between Britain and Germany during the Second World War – a goal that contravened the I.C.R.C.'s core principle of non-political involvement and neutrality. In examining the evolution of Burckhardt's peacemaking efforts, both before and during the war, this article will demonstrate how Whitehall's…
Expansion, Suspicion and the Development of the International Committee of the Red Cross
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has often been maligned for its actions, or lack thereof, during the Second World War. In particular the Committee has been criticised for its apparent inability to compromise its mandate to provide impartial and non‐politicised relief. This article discusses some of the problems of this interpretation of ICRC history by showing that, contrary to the image of the ICRC as a “well‐meaning amateur”…
The Korean War and the Post-war Prisoner of War Regime, 1945–1956
This paper examines the framework for the treatment of prisoners of war that emerged after 1945. It focuses on one of the key elements of the post-war prisoner of war (POW) regime, the role of neutral bodies – state authorities acting as ‘protecting powers’ or humanitarian agencies such as the International Committee of the Red Cross – in supervising the implementation of the 1949 POW convention. It examines the importance of neutral supervision …
Expansion, Suspicion and the Development of the International Committee of the Red Cross
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has often been maligned for its actions, or lack thereof, during the Second World War. In particular the Committee has been criticised for its apparent inability to compromise its mandate to provide impartial and non‐politicised relief. This article discusses some of the problems of this interpretation of ICRC history by showing that, contrary to the image of the ICRC as a “well‐meaning amateur”…
A man of peaceable intent
This article examines the efforts of the vice-president of the international committee of the Red Cross (I.C.R.C.), Carl J. Burckhardt, to broker peace between Britain and Germany during the Second World War – a goal that contravened the I.C.R.C.'s core principle of non-political involvement and neutrality. In examining the evolution of Burckhardt's peacemaking efforts, both before and during the war, this article will demonstrate how Whitehall's…
War and Peace, Barbarism and Civilization in Modern Europe and Its Empires
Barbed Wire Diplomacy
Research into the history of prisoners of war has changed in the last decade. Arieh Kochavi, Simon MacKenzie, Vasilis Vourkoutiotis, Bob Moore, Kent Fedorowich and others have reclaimed the field of Second World War POW history from the grasp of sensationalism, replacing dramatic tales of escape and defiance with unvarnished analysis of the often brutal nature of POW captivity. This shift in analysis has brought with it a new focus on how the liv…
Britain and the International Committee of the Red Cross, 1939–1945
James Crossland's work traces the history of the International Committee of the Red Cross' struggle to bring humanitarianism to the Second World War, by focusing on its tumultuous relationship with on
Dependence and Divergence, 1941–2
On 20 April 1941, Greece — having resisted the invasion launched by the Italians in October 1940 and the arrival of the Germans in the spring of the following year — finally capitulated to the Axis. In the days that followed, the Wehrmacht rounded up the remaining British and Colonial soldiers that had been sent to Greece’s defence, taking, by the time of the fall of Kalamata on 29 April, a grand total of 11,000 British POWs. A little over a mont…
The Korean War and the Post-war Prisoner of War Regime, 1945–1956
This paper examines the framework for the treatment of prisoners of war that emerged after 1945. It focuses on one of the key elements of the post-war prisoner of war (POW) regime, the role of neutral bodies – state authorities acting as ‘protecting powers’ or humanitarian agencies such as the International Committee of the Red Cross – in supervising the implementation of the 1949 POW convention. It examines the importance of neutral supervision …
Humanitarians at War
Scholarship on the history of the insular, yet global International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has exploded in recent decades, spurred by the forced opening of its archives in the 1980s. Public scrutiny of this supposedly impartial, apolitical humanitarian organization had reached a fever-pitch in the wake of a wave of revelations regarding its indifference and inaction during the most notorious twentieth-century human tragedy. Under publi…
"Radical Warfare's First "Superweapon
This article retraces the forgotten legacy of a percussion triggered shrapnel scattering improvised explosive device (IED), known as the Orsini Bomb. Initially used in an attempt to assassinate Emperor Napoleon III in 1858, in the decades after, the Orsini Bomb was replicated, modified and deployed by regicides, insurgents and terrorists, and mythologised by the press as an omnipresent aspect of such forms of radical warfare. This article present…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · History (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · World War II (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works)