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This book explores the ways in which non-government organisations have contributed to the reconstruction of, and care for populations in, Western European countries including but not limited to Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom in the aftermath of the World Wars.
List of contents
1. Voluntary organizations, the Red Cross and the features of humanitarian reconstruction in Western Europe after the World Wars
Romain Fathi, Melanie Oppenheimer and Paul-André Rosental2. The activity and influence of the American Red Cross in Italy during and after World War one (1917-1919)
Daniela Rossini3. At (Red) cross purposes: American Red Cross humanitarian 'arrogance' and France's Great War relief and reconstruction, 1917-20
Michael E. McGuire4. Œuvres de guerre, Croix-Rouge américaine et reconstruction pendant et après la Première Guerre mondiale: l'exemple du Havre en Seine-inférieure
Claire Saunier-Le Foll5. International development contested: the American Child Health Section in Belgium (1922-1924)
Nel de Mûelenaere6. Despondence, dependence and dignity: on the dilemmas of being an object of international charity in Western Europe - a Weimar German case study
Elisabeth Piller7. Voluntary organizations and the provision of health services in England and France, 1917-29
Barry Doyle8. The Shôken Fund and the evolution of the Red Cross movement
Romain Fathi and Melanie Oppenheimer9. Calculating war, calculating peace: the Rockefeller Foundation and science research in Britain
Jan Lambertz10. Paving the road to reconciliation: the training and practice of the Friends Relief Service in post-war reconciliation, 1943 to 1947
Nerissa Aksamit11. Women in child search: a gendered view of post-World War II reconstruction
Christine Schmidt and Dan Stone12. The road to recovery: the provision of health services to French, German and Italian children in the aftermath of the Second World War (1944-49)
Camille Mahé
About the author
Romain Fathi is Senior Lecturer in History at the School of History at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, and an affiliated researcher at the Centre d'Histoire de Sciences Po, Paris, France.
Melanie Oppenheimer is Honorary Professor of History at Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, and formerly Professor and Chair of History, now Professor Emerita at Flinders University, Australia.
Paul-André Rosental is Full Professor at Sciences Po, Paris, France, and Director of its Centre for History. He is the founder and the manager of ESOPP, a research program devoted to the social and political history of population.
