Saving Europe - First World War Relief and American Identity

Saving Europe offers a transnational and intersectional history of American food, war relief, and intervention in Europe between 1914 and 1924, a period when the United States simultaneously tightened its borders and expanded its reach. In that crucial decade after the outbreak of World War I, Americans saw themselves in a novel role as protectors of European cultural heritage and as rescuers of vulnerable populations, making them worthy successors to earlier global powers and serving as a harbinger for the later US global presence.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• 1. Belgium: Entering the Fray


• 2. France: Rebuilding Europe


• 3. Austria: Saving the Children


• 4. Germany: Friends and Enemies


• 5. Poland: Americanizing Abroad


• 6. Europe: Defining and Defending Western Civilization


• Legacies: Saving the World


• Bibliography

About the author

Tammy M. Proctor is Distinguished Professor of History at Utah State University and co-editor of the Journal of British Studies. She is the author of Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War; Civilians in a World at War, 1914-1918; An English Governess in the Great War: The Secret Brussels Diary of Mary Thorp (with Sophie de Schaepdrijver); and Gender & the Great War (co-edited with Susan R. Grayzel).

Product details

• Authors: Tammy M. Proctor, Tammy M. (Distinguished Professor of Hist Proctor
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2025
• EAN: 9780197584361
• ISBN: 978-0-19-758436-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, First World War, History of the Americas, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I