Budapest's children : humanitarian relief in the aftermath of the Great War

Author / Creator

Kind-Kovács, Friederike, author

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Summary

-- The author (located in Weimar, Germany) is a senior researcher and this is her second monograph. Her first monograph earned the University of Southern California Book Prize in Cultural and Liter...

-- The author (located in Weimar, Germany) is a senior researcher and this is her second monograph. Her first monograph earned the University of Southern California Book Prize in Cultural and Literary Studies in 2015. -- The Indiana University Worlds in Crisis series is a newly established series at IU Press and will be a hub for groundbreaking work on the causes of, experiences within, and responses to forced migration. Focusing on refugees, internally displaced people, asylum seekers and the aid system that surrounds them, the series will move beyond mere pathos to investigate the complexity of lived experiences of displacement. -- As the first title planned for the series, this work will help define the list in its sweeping and thorough historical survey of the humanitarian response to the destruction of World War I, in its clear-eyed analysis of the ways in which those in need both benefitted and were exploited, and in its focus on the everyday lives of Budapest's neediest children and those who worked to save them. -- The audience will be scholars of forced migration and refugee studies, scholars of the history of humanitarian aid and relief works, scholars working on World War I, the history of Hungary and Eastern Europe, and scholars who work on the history of childhood and child agency.

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