Elisabeth Piller
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3096534 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Elisabeth Piller |
| NOMBRES | Elisabeth |
| APELLIDO | Piller |
| FIRMA | PILLER E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Freiburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8661-7727 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Civil Wars and the Dialectic of Humanitarianism, 1914–1949
This response to Robert Gerwarth and Gwendal Piégais’s special issue on humanitarianism and civil wars in Europe has three parts. First, it aims to situate the authors’ findings in the broader context of what might be termed the ‘dialectic of humanitarianism’ – namely the reciprocal tendency of the violence of war, and notably civil war, and the mobilisation of humanitarian aid for its victims, to reinforce each other. Second, it considers in mor…
(In)Gratitude, US Ascendancy and Transatlantic Relations after the First World War
During and after the First World War, the United States provided very substantial amounts of humanitarian and economic aid to war-torn Europe. All compassion aside, international historians have long recognised the strategic and social expectations attached to such foreign aid. US generosity was to build trust, reverence and influence abroad and, by inspiring ‘gratitude’ among recipients, to translate into a foreign policy advantage. But what hap…
A Humanitarian Moment? The U.S. Military in Europe, 1943–1946
The U.S. military is not usually identified as a humanitarian force, and indeed the very concept of military humanitarianism strikes one as a paradox. According to conventional wisdom, at least, modern humanitarianism emerged as a direct response and even an antidote to military violence. As the story goes, Geneva businessman Henri Dunant's efforts to redress the horrors of war after seeing the terrible aftermath of the Battle of Solferino (1859)…
The Blockade and the Making of Modern Food Aid in the Era of the Two World Wars
Today, when we hear of besieged cities like Mariupol in Ukraine or Aleppo in Syria, we expect that ‘humanitarian corridors’ will be opened to bring food and medical supplies to civilians in need. But where does this expectation and practice come from? This article traces its origins to the blockades of the First and Second World War. In both wars, the Allied naval blockade was seen as depriving millions of civilians in enemy and enemy-controlled …
Introduction
How did blockades shape the course, outcome and aftermath of the world wars? In both wars, belligerents sought to blockade their enemies, cutting them off from vital resources such as food, oil, information and capital to hasten their defeat. They thus impacted societies the world over, testing their resilience and vulnerability. They produced new forms of violence and humanitarian care, prompted innovation and learning, and had integrative and d…
Beyond Hoover. Rewriting the History of the Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB) through Female Involvement
The Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB) was among the largest and most prominent humanitarian undertakings of the First World War. From October 1914 to mid-1919, the American-led organization provided one billion dollars’ worth of food aid (unadjusted) to Belgium and Northern France, saving about nine million civilians from slow starvation. Though fairly well-known, the history of this remarkable organization and the relief of Belgium more gen…
Despondence, dependence and dignity
The history of international humanitarianism is usually told from the perspective of donors and aid providers. Throughout the twentieth century, large humanitarian organizations such as the International Committee of the Red Cross, national Red Cross societies and a range of United Nations agencies have been the main channels of international aid and, as a result, a major focus of historical attention. In contrast, we know little about the feelin…
Prelude to Re-education
Much has been written about US efforts to solve the ‘German problem’ after the Second World War. Scholars have carefully studied US attempts to de-Nazify, pacify and democratise post-war Germany and have identified the creation of large-scale student exchange programmes as an integral part of that agenda. As this article shows, 1945 was not the first time in the twentieth century that US policy-makers and educators had pondered the German problem…
Die Rückkehr der Imperien? Putins Krieg und seine globalen Implikationen
The Transatlantic Dynamics of European Cultural Diplomacy
The article explores the role of cultural diplomacy in Weimar Germany and France's competing efforts to win the sympathies and support of the United States after the First World War. In the post-war United States, both France and Germany used cultural initiatives to pursue their opposing visions of the new international order: France to maintain and extend wartime cultural alliances beyond the armistice and implement the provisions of the peace t…
Cultural Diplomacy and Europe's Twenty Years’ Crisis, 1919–1939
Photographs of the German and Soviet pavilions facing off at the Paris International Exposition in 1937 offer an iconic image of the interwar period, and with good reason. This image captures the interwar period's great conflict of ideologies, the international interconnectedness of the age and the aestheticisation of political and ideological conflict in the age of mass media and mass spectacle. [Figure 1] Last but not least, it captures the imp…
Managing Imponderables
Journal Article Managing Imponderables: The Rise of U.S. Tourism and the Transformation of German Diplomacy, 1890–1933 Get access Elisabeth Piller Elisabeth Piller Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 44, Issue 1, January 2020, Pages 47–75, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhz045 Published: 06 November 2019
To Aid the Fatherland. German-Americans, Transatlantic Relief Work and American Neutrality, 1914–17
This article explores German-American war relief for Germany during First World War, concentrating on the period of American neutrality, 1914–17. Based on financial ledgers, meeting protocols and the publications of ethnic organisations, it shows how German-American charity served as a force of mobilisation on behalf of the old fatherland after August 1914 even as American public sentiments turned increasingly hostile towards Germany. The article…
German Child Distress, US Humanitarian Aid and Revisionist Politics, 1918–24
This article explores Weimar Germany's strategic use of German child distress to win US popular support for a revision of the Versailles treaty. Through the early 1920s German officials deliberately publicized the innocent suffering of German children to project German poverty and victimization and to communicate the unjust and untenable nature of the peace terms to the world, especially the powerful United States. At a time when the United State…
Cultural Diplomacy and Europe's Twenty Years’ Crisis, 1919–1939
Photographs of the German and Soviet pavilions facing off at the Paris International Exposition in 1937 offer an iconic image of the interwar period, and with good reason. This image captures the interwar period's great conflict of ideologies, the international interconnectedness of the age and the aestheticisation of political and ideological conflict in the age of mass media and mass spectacle. [Figure 1] Last but not least, it captures the imp…
German Child Distress, US Humanitarian Aid and Revisionist Politics, 1918–24
This article explores Weimar Germany's strategic use of German child distress to win US popular support for a revision of the Versailles treaty. Through the early 1920s German officials deliberately publicized the innocent suffering of German children to project German poverty and victimization and to communicate the unjust and untenable nature of the peace terms to the world, especially the powerful United States. At a time when the United State…
The Transatlantic Dynamics of European Cultural Diplomacy
The article explores the role of cultural diplomacy in Weimar Germany and France's competing efforts to win the sympathies and support of the United States after the First World War. In the post-war United States, both France and Germany used cultural initiatives to pursue their opposing visions of the new international order: France to maintain and extend wartime cultural alliances beyond the armistice and implement the provisions of the peace t…
To Aid the Fatherland. German-Americans, Transatlantic Relief Work and American Neutrality, 1914–17
This article explores German-American war relief for Germany during First World War, concentrating on the period of American neutrality, 1914–17. Based on financial ledgers, meeting protocols and the publications of ethnic organisations, it shows how German-American charity served as a force of mobilisation on behalf of the old fatherland after August 1914 even as American public sentiments turned increasingly hostile towards Germany. The article…
German Child Distress, US Humanitarian Aid and Revisionist Politics, 1918–24
This article explores Weimar Germany's strategic use of German child distress to win US popular support for a revision of the Versailles treaty. Through the early 1920s German officials deliberately publicized the innocent suffering of German children to project German poverty and victimization and to communicate the unjust and untenable nature of the peace terms to the world, especially the powerful United States. At a time when the United State…
To Aid the Fatherland. German-Americans, Transatlantic Relief Work and American Neutrality, 1914–17
This article explores German-American war relief for Germany during First World War, concentrating on the period of American neutrality, 1914–17. Based on financial ledgers, meeting protocols and the publications of ethnic organisations, it shows how German-American charity served as a force of mobilisation on behalf of the old fatherland after August 1914 even as American public sentiments turned increasingly hostile towards Germany. The article…
Managing Imponderables
Journal Article Managing Imponderables: The Rise of U.S. Tourism and the Transformation of German Diplomacy, 1890–1933 Get access Elisabeth Piller Elisabeth Piller Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 44, Issue 1, January 2020, Pages 47–75, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhz045 Published: 06 November 2019
The Transatlantic Dynamics of European Cultural Diplomacy
The article explores the role of cultural diplomacy in Weimar Germany and France's competing efforts to win the sympathies and support of the United States after the First World War. In the post-war United States, both France and Germany used cultural initiatives to pursue their opposing visions of the new international order: France to maintain and extend wartime cultural alliances beyond the armistice and implement the provisions of the peace t…
Cultural Diplomacy and Europe's Twenty Years’ Crisis, 1919–1939
Photographs of the German and Soviet pavilions facing off at the Paris International Exposition in 1937 offer an iconic image of the interwar period, and with good reason. This image captures the interwar period's great conflict of ideologies, the international interconnectedness of the age and the aestheticisation of political and ideological conflict in the age of mass media and mass spectacle. [Figure 1] Last but not least, it captures the imp…
Die Rückkehr der Imperien? Putins Krieg und seine globalen Implikationen
Beyond Hoover. Rewriting the History of the Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB) through Female Involvement
The Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB) was among the largest and most prominent humanitarian undertakings of the First World War. From October 1914 to mid-1919, the American-led organization provided one billion dollars’ worth of food aid (unadjusted) to Belgium and Northern France, saving about nine million civilians from slow starvation. Though fairly well-known, the history of this remarkable organization and the relief of Belgium more gen…
Despondence, dependence and dignity
The history of international humanitarianism is usually told from the perspective of donors and aid providers. Throughout the twentieth century, large humanitarian organizations such as the International Committee of the Red Cross, national Red Cross societies and a range of United Nations agencies have been the main channels of international aid and, as a result, a major focus of historical attention. In contrast, we know little about the feelin…
Prelude to Re-education
Much has been written about US efforts to solve the ‘German problem’ after the Second World War. Scholars have carefully studied US attempts to de-Nazify, pacify and democratise post-war Germany and have identified the creation of large-scale student exchange programmes as an integral part of that agenda. As this article shows, 1945 was not the first time in the twentieth century that US policy-makers and educators had pondered the German problem…
A Humanitarian Moment? The U.S. Military in Europe, 1943–1946
The U.S. military is not usually identified as a humanitarian force, and indeed the very concept of military humanitarianism strikes one as a paradox. According to conventional wisdom, at least, modern humanitarianism emerged as a direct response and even an antidote to military violence. As the story goes, Geneva businessman Henri Dunant's efforts to redress the horrors of war after seeing the terrible aftermath of the Battle of Solferino (1859)…
The Blockade and the Making of Modern Food Aid in the Era of the Two World Wars
Today, when we hear of besieged cities like Mariupol in Ukraine or Aleppo in Syria, we expect that ‘humanitarian corridors’ will be opened to bring food and medical supplies to civilians in need. But where does this expectation and practice come from? This article traces its origins to the blockades of the First and Second World War. In both wars, the Allied naval blockade was seen as depriving millions of civilians in enemy and enemy-controlled …
Introduction
How did blockades shape the course, outcome and aftermath of the world wars? In both wars, belligerents sought to blockade their enemies, cutting them off from vital resources such as food, oil, information and capital to hasten their defeat. They thus impacted societies the world over, testing their resilience and vulnerability. They produced new forms of violence and humanitarian care, prompted innovation and learning, and had integrative and d…
Civil Wars and the Dialectic of Humanitarianism, 1914–1949
This response to Robert Gerwarth and Gwendal Piégais’s special issue on humanitarianism and civil wars in Europe has three parts. First, it aims to situate the authors’ findings in the broader context of what might be termed the ‘dialectic of humanitarianism’ – namely the reciprocal tendency of the violence of war, and notably civil war, and the mobilisation of humanitarian aid for its victims, to reinforce each other. Second, it considers in mor…
(In)Gratitude, US Ascendancy and Transatlantic Relations after the First World War
During and after the First World War, the United States provided very substantial amounts of humanitarian and economic aid to war-torn Europe. All compassion aside, international historians have long recognised the strategic and social expectations attached to such foreign aid. US generosity was to build trust, reverence and influence abroad and, by inspiring ‘gratitude’ among recipients, to translate into a foreign policy advantage. But what hap…
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