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.
General
Imprint: |
de Gruyter Oldenbourg
|
Country of origin: |
Germany |
Release date: |
June 2024 |
First published: |
2024 |
Authors: |
Daniel Maul
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Dimensions: |
230 x 155mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
300 |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-11-067559-7 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
3-11-067559-5 |
Barcode: |
9783110675597 |
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