Feeding the Mind - Humanitarianism Reconstruction of European Intellectual Life, 1919

"In the aftermath of the cataclysm of the First World War, politicians, philanthropists and humanitarians directed aid to Europe's intellectuals and their shattered institutions to stabilise the continent's democracies and preserve international peace. This groundbreaking book tells the story of the postwar rebuilding of European intellectual life"--

List of contents

Introduction; 1. 1919: rebuilding civilization; 2. Feeding bodies: food relief and 'the most deplorable victims of the war.'; 3. Feeding the mind: the post-war book crisis; 4. Knowledge displaced; 5. Books and buildings: the reconstruction of libraries after the first world war; 6. Who were the intellectuals?; Epilogue. Beyond 1933.

About the author

Tomás Irish is Associate Professor of Modern History at Swansea University. A specialist in the cultural history of the First World War and interwar Europe, his books include the prizewinning The University at War 1914-25: Britain, France and the United States (2015), and Trinity in War and Revolution, 1912-23 (2015).

Summary

In the aftermath of the cataclysm of the First World War, politicians, philanthropists and humanitarians directed aid to Europe's intellectuals and their shattered institutions to stabilise the continent's democracies and preserve international peace. This groundbreaking book tells the story of the postwar rebuilding of European intellectual life.

Product details

• Authors: Tomás Irish, Tomas (Swansea University) Irish
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2023
• EAN: 9781009123228
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0912322-8
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Studies in the Social and Cult; Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; History: specific events & topics, History of Ideas, Europe, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Aid & relief programmes, History: specific events and topics, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Aid and relief programmes