2 Constructive Service: The First World War and the Founding of the American Friends Service Committee

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction: Humanitarian Identity and the Politics of Service 1
5. 1 “Lay upon us the burden of the world’s suffering”: Quaker Humanitarianism before the First World War 26
6. 2 Constructive Service: The First World War and the Founding of the American Friends Service Committee 38
7. 3 A New Pennsylvania: The Quäkerspeisung in Germany 1919–1923 72
8. 4 Swallowed by Lions and Eagles: The AFSC in the Soviet Union 1921–1923 115
9. 5 What’s the Message? The AFSC between Home and Foreign Service 1919–1935 155
10. 6 The Quakerly Approach at Its Limits: The AFSC and Nazi Germany 1933–1939 187
11. 7 Contested Neutrality: The AFSC in the Spanish Civil War 231
12. 8 Everyone’s Friend? The AFSC, the Second World War, and the Tensions of Humanitarian Aid Twenty-Five Years On 271
13. Archival Sources 307
14. Bibliography 311
15. Index 327