Precious cargo : child rescue and American power, 1945-1980
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In the quarter century between 1950 and 1975, Americans launched four major emergency campaigns to resettle children caught in war zones. This dissertation investigates these child evacuation airlifts in Korea (1950), Cuba (1960-1962), Nigeria (1968), and Vietnam (1975). It explores why Americans considered refugee children especially worthy of rescue; to what extent the Cold War informed their philanthropic efforts; and how the relationship between private humanitarians and the U.S. government changed over time. This study argues that small-scale acts of relief helped the American public endure the military and diplomatic setbacks of the Cold War. It demonstrates how aid to a symbolic few insulated state actors from more systematic critiques of U.S. foreign policy. Finally, by tracing the history of postwar child rescue missions through the lens of gender politics, this project illuminates the rise of one of the signature institutions of our own time: the international NGO.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2017 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Katzen, Risa M |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of History. |
| Primary advisor | Campbell, James |
| Primary advisor | Freedman, Estelle B, 1947- |
| Thesis advisor | Campbell, James |
| Thesis advisor | Freedman, Estelle B, 1947- |
| Thesis advisor | Chang, Gordon H |
| Advisor | Chang, Gordon H |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Risa M. Katzen. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of History. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2017. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2017 by Risa Michelle Katzen
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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