Tomás Irish

Feeding the Mind

Humanitarianism and the Reconstruction of European Intellectual Life, 1919-1933

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Produktbeschreibung

"In the aftermath of the cataclysm of the First World War, politicians, philanthropists and humanitarians directed aid to Europe's intellectuals and their shattered institutions to stabilise the continent's democracies and preserve international peace. This groundbreaking book tells the story of the postwar rebuilding of European intellectual life"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781009123228
• ISBN-10: 100912322X
• Artikelnr.: 68166712

Autorenporträt

Tomás Irish is Associate Professor of Modern History at Swansea University. A specialist in the cultural history of the First World War and interwar Europe, his books include the prizewinning The University at War 1914-25: Britain, France and the United States (2015), and Trinity in War and Revolution, 1912-23 (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. 1919: rebuilding civilization
2. Feeding bodies: food relief and 'the most deplorable victims of the war.'
3. Feeding the mind: the post-war book crisis
4. Knowledge displaced
5. Books and buildings: the reconstruction of libraries after the first world war
6. Who were the intellectuals?
Epilogue. Beyond 1933.