The Politics of Service
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The Politics of Service

American Quakers and the Emergence of International Humanitarian Aid 1917-1945

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<p>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.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN
9783110675597
Sprache
Englisch
Einband / Art
Buch
Maße
228 x 156 x 24 mm
Erscheinungsjahr
2024
Verlag / Hersteller
De Gruyter Oldenbourg

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