The Politics of Service: American Quakers and the Emergence of International Humanitarian Aid 1917-1945

by Daniel Maul

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110675595
• ISBN13: 9783110675597
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary