TY - BOOK AU - Maul,Daniel TI - The Politics of Service: American Quakers and the Emergence of International Humanitarian Aid 1917–1945 SN - 9783110675597 AV - BX7637 .M3813 2023 U1 - 360 PY - 2024///] CY - Mnchen, Wien PB - De Gruyter Oldenbourg KW - Humanitarian assistance, American KW - Humanitarianism KW - Religious aspects KW - Society of Friends KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - 20. Jahrhundert KW - American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) KW - Hilfsorganisation KW - Quäker KW - HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century KW - bisacsh KW - Aid organization KW - Quaker KW - humanitarian aid N1 - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; Introduction: Humanitarian Identity and the Politics of Service --; 1 “Lay upon us the burden of the world’s suffering”: Quaker Humanitarianism before the First World War --; 2 Constructive Service: The First World War and the Founding of the American Friends Service Committee --; 3 A New Pennsylvania: The Quäkerspeisung in Germany 1919–1923 --; 4 Swallowed by Lions and Eagles: The AFSC in the Soviet Union 1921–1923 --; 5 What’s the Message? The AFSC between Home and Foreign Service 1919–1935 --; 6 The Quakerly Approach at Its Limits: The AFSC and Nazi Germany 1933–1939 --; 7 Contested Neutrality: The AFSC in the Spanish Civil War --; 8 Everyone’s Friend? The AFSC, the Second World War, and the Tensions of Humanitarian Aid Twenty-Five Years On --; Archival Sources --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - This book provides the first comprehensive history of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the central aid agency of the Religious Society of Friends or Quakers, from 1917 to 1945. Implying a thoroughly transnational approach, it sheds a light on the important role American Quakers played in the emergence of a humanitarian sector both within the USA and beyond. Through the Quaker lens the book adresses important tensions inherent to the history of humanitarianism in the 20th century: Following the AFSCs aid operations from the First World War, through post-war Germany and Soviet Russia to the Spanish Civil War and into the Second World War, it deals with the AFSC’s conflicting roles as a specifically American aid organization on the one hand and its position within transnational religious and pacifist networks on the other and it opens a window to processes of professionalization, the development of a humanitarian “market place” and the complex relationship of religious and secular strands in the history of international relief UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110675795 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110675795 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110675795/original ER -