Feeding the mind: humanitarianism and the reconstruction of European intellectual life, 1919-1933

In: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

Abstract

"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"--