Voluntary Organisations, the Red Cross, and the Features of Humanitarian Reconstruction in Western Europe after the World Wars (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Fathi, Romain; Rosental, Paul-André; Oppenheimer, Melanie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the ways in which non-government organisations have contributed to the reconstruction of, and care for populations in, Western European countries including but not limited to Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom in the aftermath of the World Wars.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040389348
• Artikelnr.: 74041712

Autorenporträt

Romain Fathi is Senior Lecturer in History at the School of History at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, and an affiliated researcher at the Centre d'Histoire de Sciences Po, Paris, France. Melanie Oppenheimer is Honorary Professor of History at Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, and formerly Professor and Chair of History, now Professor Emerita at Flinders University, Australia. Paul-André Rosental is Full Professor at Sciences Po, Paris, France, and Director of its Centre for History. He is the founder and the manager of ESOPP, a research program devoted to the social and political history of population.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Voluntary organizations, the Red Cross and the features of humanitarian
reconstruction in Western Europe after the World Wars
Romain Fathi, Melanie Oppenheimer and Paul-André Rosental
2. The activity and influence of the American Red Cross in Italy during and
after World War one (1917-1919)
Daniela Rossini
3. At (Red) cross purposes: American Red Cross humanitarian 'arrogance' and
France's Great War relief and reconstruction, 1917-20
Michael E. McGuire
4. uvres de guerre, Croix-Rouge américaine et reconstruction pendant et
après la Première Guerre mondiale: l'exemple du Havre en Seine-inférieure
Claire Saunier-Le Foll
5. International development contested: the American Child Health Section
in Belgium (1922-1924)
Nel de Mûelenaere
6. Despondence, dependence and dignity: on the dilemmas of being an object
of international charity in Western Europe - a Weimar German case study
Elisabeth Piller
7. Voluntary organizations and the provision of health services in England
and France, 1917-29
Barry Doyle
8. The Shôken Fund and the evolution of the Red Cross movement
Romain Fathi and Melanie Oppenheimer
9. Calculating war, calculating peace: the Rockefeller Foundation and
science research in Britain
Jan Lambertz
10. Paving the road to reconciliation: the training and practice of the
Friends Relief Service in post-war reconciliation, 1943 to 1947
Nerissa Aksamit
11. Women in child search: a gendered view of post-World War II
reconstruction
Christine Schmidt and Dan Stone
12. The road to recovery: the provision of health services to French,
German and Italian children in the aftermath of the Second World War
(1944-49)
Camille Mahé