Ngo Care and Food Aid From America, 194580 - ''Showered With Kindness''?

This book on the humanitarian NGO CARE offers a unique historical insight into the successes and crises of one of the major private humanitarian players throughout the second half of the 20th century.

List of contents

Introduction
1 Setting up a non-profit enterprise (1945-7)
2 From Europe to Asia and beyond (1948-55)
3 In search of a new mission in Korea
4 New cooperative horizons (1955-61)
5 Food aid and private-public cooperation in Egypt
6 From American relief to international development cooperation (1961-8)
7 CARE and the Peace Corps
8 Towards multinational enterprise (1969-80)
Conclusion
Index

About the author

Heike Wieters is associate professor for Historical Research on Europe and European Integration at the Department of History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Summary

This book on the humanitarian NGO CARE offers a unique historical insight into the successes and crises of one of the major private humanitarian players throughout the second half of the 20th century. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Heike Wieters, Wieters Heike
• Assisted by: Bertrand Taithe (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781526117212
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1721-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Humanitarianism Key Debates an; Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches; Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches; Humanitarianism Key Debates an; Humanitarianism: Key Debates a
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Internationale Beziehungen, USA, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, 1960 bis 1969 n. Chr., 1970 bis 1979 n. Chr., 1950 bis 1959 n. Chr., POLITICAL SCIENCE / NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations), Nichtstaatliche Organisationen (NGOs), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Entwicklungsstudien, International Relations, c 1960 to c 1970, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Aid & relief programmes, Development Studies, c 1970 to c 1980, C 1945 To C 1960, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)