YMCA at War

Collaboration and Conflict during the World Wars

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) is best known for its athletic and youth programs, a heritage that draws on its origins in 1844 to provide wholesome recreation to urban youth away from the moral decay of industrialized urban living. Before long, that uplift mission found a place in the American Civil War, and soon the Y had spread all over the world by the early twentieth century, and in every major war thereafter as well. The YMCA at War: Collaboration and Conflict during the World Wars is the first collection of scholarship to examine the YMCA’s efforts during the World Wars of the twentieth century, which proved to be a bastion of support to soldiers and civilians around the world. The YMCA deployed hundreds of thousands of its much-vaunted secretaries to support suffering civilians and ease soldiers’ wartime hardships. Joining forces with governments, other civic organizations, and individuals, the Y could be either an indispensable auxiliary or an arms-length nuisance. In all cases, its support had a significant byproduct: for every person it befriended, the Y invariably made an enemy with an opposing party, its patrons, its sponsor, or at times, all three. The YMCA at War offers fresh, timely research in an international and comparative perspective from scholars around the world that evaluates this conflict and collaboration during the World Wars.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-08-06
Mått155 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt395 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor258
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
MedarbetareMiller,MatthewLee
ISBN9781498548229

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Foreword, Matthew Lee MillerIntroduction: Collaboration and Conflict: The YMCA at War, Jeffrey C. Copeland and Yan XuChapter 1: The Damn Y Man in WWI: Service, Perception, and Cigarettes, Joel R. BiusChapter 2: Huts in the Holy Land: The YMCA and British Empire Soldiers in the Sinai andPalestine Campaigns, 1916–1918, Edward C. WoodfinChapter 3: To Help and To Organize: The YMCA in Italy during the Great War, Ugo Pavan Dalla TorreChapter 4: The American YMCA and War Work Service in Russia in World War I and the Russian Civil War, 1914–1923, Kenneth A. SteuerChapter 5: The YMCA and the Science of International Civil Statecraft in Post-World War ICzechoslovakia, Erika Cornelius SmithChapter 6: The YMCA with the American Occupation Force in Germany after World War I,Larry A. GrantChapter 7: “Character Conservancy in Shanghai’s Emergency”: The YMCA in Shanghai, 1931–1942, Kristin Mulready-StoneChapter 8: Befriending Soldiers: The Emergency Service to Soldiers Program of the Chinese YMCA during the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945, Yan XuChapter 9: “In Harmony with American Democracy”: The YMCA in California during the Japanese American Internment and Resettlement, Jeffrey C. CopelandChapter 10: “Canadians for Canadians Only...It's Like a Paradise”: Sport, Leisure, and the Canadian YMCA in England during the Second World War, John J. MakerChapter 11: The YMCA, YWCA, and the "Civilizing" of Australian Servicemen in Postwar Japan, John Moremon