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

"Providing vital new details and nuance into the evolution of humanitarian operations and thought throughout the First World War and the interwar period, this book succeeds in situating this - supposedly small - religious movement into global geopolitical transformations, internationalist thinking, and the collapse of European imperial hegemony by 1945. For diplomatic scholars of US geopolitical growth during the mid-twentieth century, this will be an invaluable source of research." - Margot Tudor, City University of London

"This was a joy to read! The book sheds considerable new light on the inner workings of the AFSC, and in particular on the philosophical dilemmas the U.S. Quakers confronted as they sought to live their faith through humanitarian aid to people suffering in other countries." - Lauren Turek, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas