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 – María Inés 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 – Cédric 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 –Tomás 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 -- .