Humanitarianism and the Greater War, 1914-24

Introduction: humanitarianism and the Greater War - Elisabeth Piller and Neville Wylie

PART I: GLOBAL WAR, GLOBAL AID

1 Humanitarian aid across the ocean: Argentine contributions to the relief of Europe during the Great War - Mar­a In©s Tato

2 Sagas of swords, scrolls, and dolls: Japanese humanitarian aid to Belgium -Hanne Deleu

3 Geographies of humanitarian mobilisation: Portuguese Africa and the Great War - Ana Paula Pires

4 Philanthropy in time of war: Paul Nathan and the Hilfsverein der deutschen Juden -Christoph Jahr

PART II: THE POLITICS AND POWER OF AID

5 The neutrals at war: humanitarian competition in the Great War - C©dric Cotter

6 Neutrality and the politics of protection: the United States as a protecting power, 1914-17 - Neville Wylie

7 Blockaders as humanitarians? Connecting the Allied blockade of Germany and post-war

Humanitarianism - Phillip Dehne

8 Better fed than red: international famine relief, 1921-22 - Kimberly Lowe

PART III: THE LEGACIES AND LIMITS OF GREAT WAR-ERA RELIEF

9 Abandoning Poland: Great War humanitarianism as a history of failure - Elisabeth Piller

10 Children and the 'hunger politics' of 1919-20: food aid to German children and the

founding of the international Save the Children Movement - Tatjana Eichert and Rebecca Gill

11 'The most deplorable victims'? The language of humanitarianism and relief to intellectuals in the era of the Great War -Tom¡s Irish

12 The imperial 'guardians' of slavery: international humanitarianism, colonial labour policies, and the crisis of imperial governance under the League of Nations, 1919-26 - Christian Mueller

Afterword - Branden Little

Index