An American enterprise? British participation in US food relief programmes (1914–1923)

Proctor, Tammy M.

doi:10.1080/19475020.2014.906317

First World War Studies

2014

DOI: 10.1080/19475020.2014.906317

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An American enterprise? British participation in US food relief programmes (1914–1923)

Tammy M. Proctor

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The “Moral Basis” of Reconstruction? Humanitarianism, Intellectual Relief and the League of Nations, 1918–1925

Irish¹

2019

Mod. Intell. Hist.

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This article analyses the post-First World War emergence of intellectual relief. This is defined here as aid given to intellectuals and scholarly institutions. Relief included the provision of food and medicines to individuals as well as the supply of relevant scholarly literature and laboratory equipment to academic institutions. After 1918, significant humanitarian interventions targeted Central and Eastern Europe, which had been ravaged by war and its myriad consequences. The article argues that intellectual relief, while frequently using the language of the “crisis of civilization,” was part of the broader effort to safeguard the postwar liberal democratic order against Bolshevism. The article pays particular attention to the League of Nations' Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (CIC) to show how states like Hungary used intellectual deprivation to agitate for treaty revision. It argues that the CIC's development was shaped by the wider dynamics of intellectual relief.

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The “Moral Basis” of Reconstruction? Humanitarianism, Intellectual Relief and the League of Nations, 1918–1925

Irish¹

2019

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American War Relief, Cultural Mobilization, and the Myth of Impartial Humanitarianism, 1914–17

Piller¹

2018

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This paper reassesses American opinions and sentiments during the period of neutrality in light of the one endeavor that involved millions of Americans in the European conflict long before official U.S. belligerency: war relief. Tracing some of the “humanitarian narratives” employed in the relief campaigns for the Central Powers, the Allies, and neutral Belgium, humanitarian involvement, it will be argued, not only expressed prevalent ethnic, cultural, and political affinities, but shaped American attitudes toward the different belligerents. Contrary to contemporary claims, humanitarian pursuits were never even remotely impartial, but drew Americans onto the different sides of the war like few other endeavors. Indeed, relief work must be taken serious as a force of “cultural mobilization” (Horne), which affected American “visions of the war and its outcome.” By involving Americans actively on the different sides of the European war, it helped forge discrete moral and emotional alliances across the Atlantic. In trying to understand the complicated and acrimonious process by which Americans moved from peace to war, their relief work thus deserves attention.

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Reinventing the firm: from post-war relief to international humanitarian agency

Wieters

2016

European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire

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An American enterprise? British participation in US food relief programmes (1914–1923)

Cited by 5 publications

References 9 publications

The “Moral Basis” of Reconstruction? Humanitarianism, Intellectual Relief and the League of Nations, 1918–1925

The “Moral Basis” of Reconstruction? Humanitarianism, Intellectual Relief and the League of Nations, 1918–1925

American War Relief, Cultural Mobilization, and the Myth of Impartial Humanitarianism, 1914–17

Reinventing the firm: from post-war relief to international humanitarian agency

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