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This book provides the first comprehensive history of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the central aid agency of Religious Society of Friends or Quakers, from 1917 to 1939. Implying a thoroughly transnational approach, it sheds a light on the important role American Quakers played in the emergence of a humanitarian sector within the USA and beyond. Through the Quaker lens the book adresses important tensions inherent to the history of humanitarianism in the 20th century: Following the AFSCs aid operations from the First World War, through post-war Germany and Soviet Russia to the Spanish Civil War it deals with the AFSC's conflicting roles as a specifically American aid organization on the one hand and its position within transnational religious and pacifist networks on the other and it opens a window to processes of professionalization, the development of humanitarian techniques and the complex relationship of religious and secular strands in the history of humanitarianism.
| Autorius: | Daniel Maul |
| Leidėjas: | de Gruyter Oldenbourg |
| Išleidimo metai: | 2024 |
| ISBN-10: | 3110675595 |
| ISBN-13: | 9783110675597 |
| Formatas: | 228 x 156 x 24 mm. Knyga kietu viršeliu |
| Kalba: | Anglų |
Parašykite atsiliepimą apie „The Politics of Service: American Quakers and the Emergence of International Humanitarian Aid 1917-1945“
