123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): American Food Abroad: State Administration, Voluntary Relief, and the Politics of Food Aid in the Great War

American Food Abroad: State Administration, Voluntary Relief, and the Politics of Food Aid in the Great War

AHA Session 6

Friday, January 2, 2009: 1:00 PM-3:00 PM

Concourse E (Hilton New York)

Chair:

Nick Cullather, Indiana University at Bloomington

Topics:

Mobilizing the American Homefront: Humanitarians and the War against European Hunger, 1914–19
Branden Little, University of California at Berkeley

“A Piratical State for Benevolence”: American Foreign Policy and the Commission for Relief in Belgium, 1914–19
Thomas D. Westerman, University of Connecticut

Managing Diets and Dissent: The “Feed America First” Movement and the Politics of Exporting Food during World War I
Elizabeth Cafer du Plessis, Indiana University at Bloomington

To Manage the World’s Food: The Culture of Administration in America’s World War I Food Relief Program
Helen Veit, Yale University

Comment:

The Audience

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