Feeding Occupied France during World War I

Herbert Hoover and the Blockade
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-05562-2
Verlag: Birkhäuser

Buch, Englisch, 357 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 593 g

This book examines the history of Herbert Hoover’s Commission for Relief in Belgium, which supplied humanitarian aid to the millions of civilians trapped behind German lines in Belgium and Northern France during World War I. Here, Clotilde Druelle focuses on the little-known work of the CRB in Northern France, crossing continents and excavating neglected archives to tell the story of daily life under Allied blockade in the region. She shows how the survival of 2.3 million French civilians came to depend upon the transnational mobilization of a new sort of diplomatic actor—the non-governmental organization. Lacking formal authority, the leaders of the CRB claimed moral authority, introducing the concepts of a “humanitarian food emergency” and “humanitarian corridors” and ushering in a new age of international relations and American hegemony.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Druelle, Clotilde

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Invasion und Besatzung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Herbert C. Hoover: The American Epic.- 2. The Occupation of Belgium and Northern France.- 3. The Significance of the Royal Navy's Blockade of Europe.- 4. The Progressive Coordination of the Supply.- 5. Occupied France: Administration, Protection and Validation.- 6. Time of Contradictions: Supply in the Heart of the Total War, Spring 1917–Fall 1918.- 7. The "End of Innocence", 1918–1919.

Über Autor(innen)

Clotilde Druelle is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Limoges, France. She is trained as a geographer and a historian, and her work focuses on business organizations and the economic history of WWI.