Tomas Irish

Feeding the Mind (eBook, PDF)

Humanitarianism and the Reconstruction of European Intellectual Life, 1919-1933

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009463515
• Artikelnr.: 70913243

Autorenporträt

Tomás Irish is Associate Professor of Modern History at Swansea University. A specialist in the cultural history of the First World War and interwar Europe, his books include the prizewinning The University at War 1914-25: Britain, France and the United States (2015), and Trinity in War and Revolution, 1912-23 (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. 1919: rebuilding civilization
2. Feeding bodies: food relief and 'the most deplorable victims of the war.'
3. Feeding the mind: the post-war book crisis
4. Knowledge displaced
5. Books and buildings: the reconstruction of libraries after the first world war
6. Who were the intellectuals?
Epilogue. Beyond 1933.