The Rinderpest Campaigns

Amanda Kay McVety is Associate Professor of History at Miami University. She is the author of Enlightened Aid: US Development as Foreign Policy in Ethiopia (2012) and has published articles in the journals Diplomatic History and The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

• Introduction; 1. Rinderpest and the origins of international vooperation for disease control; 2. GIR-1: rinderpest in World War II; 3. 'Freedom from want': UNRRA's rinderpest campaigns; 4. The machinery of development: FAO's rinderpest campaigns; 5. Back to Grosse Île: biological warfare in the postwar world; 6. 'Freedom from rinderpest'; Conclusion.

'In her innovative, engaging, and deeply-researched book, Amanda Kay McVety brilliantly recounts the history of Rinderpest and the international struggle to contain it. Putting biology and the environment at the center of postwar history, her book makes a valuable contribution to the study of twentieth-century internationalism(s) and global development.' Julia F. Irwin, University of South Florida, author of Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation's Humanitarian Awakening