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Private Aid, Political Activism

American Medical Relief to Spain and China, 1936–1949

Aelwen D. Wetherby

Private Aid, Political Activism

248 pages

Published: February 2017

22 illus.

ISBN: 9780826221070

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About This Book
This book explores American medical relief to Spain and China in the 1930s and 1940s as responses to the Spanish Civil War and the Second Sino-Japanese War. Although serving vastly different peoples in strikingly distant landscapes, the three aid organizations focused on here illustrate a transition in how Americans responded to foreign conflict and how humanitarian aid was used as a political tool. The story of these small and relatively unknown organizations can help refine historical understanding of the development of humanitarianism and the evolution of global citizenship in the twentieth century.

Authors and Editors
Aelwen D. Wetherby is Historical Fellow at the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education where she conducts research into missing and unresolved casualties from World War II. She lives in Omaha, NE.
Praise For This Book
“By combining and comparing the work done in Spain with what was done in China, the author has brought a new perspective to the issue of medical aid and the activities of many Americans in the late 1930s and into World War II. The comparison is appropriate and well handled. Indeed, this duality is what makes this book so original and insightful."—Christopher Jespersen, University of North Georgia, author of American Images of China, 1931–1949
“This is an important study of humanitarianism and U.S. foreign relations.”—Michelle Tusan, University of Nevada–Las Vegas, author of Smyrna’s Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide, and the Birth of the Middle East

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