The Ngo Care and Food Aid from America 1945-80 ─ Showered With Kindness?

This book provides a historical account of the NGO CARE as one of the largest humanitarian NGOs worldwide from 1945 to 1980. Readers interested in international relations and humanitarian hunger prevention are provided with fascinating insights into the economic and business related aspects of Western non-governmental politics, fundraising and philanthropic giving in this field. Not only does the book contributes to ongoing research about the rise of NGOs in the international realm, it also offers very rich empirical material on the political implications of private and governmental international aid in a world marked by the order of the Cold War, decolonialization processes and the struggle of so called "Third World Countries" to catch up with modern Western consumer societies.

Heike Wieters, History of Western Europe and Transatlantic Relations at Humboldt University of Berlin and head of the research group "The Welfare State" within the Franco-German scientific network in the humanities and social sciences "Saisir l'Europe Herausforderung Europa