Julia F Irwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3786176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia F Irwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia F |
| FAMILY NAME | Irwin |
| SIGNATURE | IRWIN J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5330-0811 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Friends in a Warring World
A First Responder to the World
In the twenty-first century, providing humanitarian assistance to other nations forms an essential part of the U.S. military's mission. Designed to “relieve or reduce endemic conditions such as human suffering, disease, hunger, [and] privation,” the military's humanitarian tasks include such activities as assisting refugees, delivering food and medical equipment to partner nations, and removing unexploded landmines. 1 But among the most recognize…
The Cornucopia and Pandora’s Box
In late 1953, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower addressed the United Nations General Assembly, advancing a bold new vision for the atomic age. Even as he acknowledged the existential threats that nuclear weapons posed, Eisenhower stressed that atomic energy could—and indeed, must—be harnessed for peaceful purposes. He went on to outline a wide array of civilian applications for nuclear energy, in such areas as agriculture, medicine, and electri…
Our Climatic Moment: Hazarding a History of the United States and the World
Introduction: On Disaster
Disasters-and related topics such as risk, forecasting, and anthropogenic climate change-are of increasing interest to historians of science and allied fields. The very concept, however, is a slippery one, raising a host of related questions. What types of events or processes truly constitute "disasters"? How have disasters been defined historically, and how have these categories shifted over time? How have science and technology shaped social an…
The American Red Cross in Great War-Era Europe, 1914-1922
All too often, histories of the Great War identify two key events—the United States’ declaration of war against the German Empire on April 6, 1917 and the subsequent arrival of the first U.S. troops in Europe that June—as the start of U.S. participation in the conflict. American involvement in the Great War, such narratives go on to suggest, was relatively short-lived; commencing in the spring of 1917, it culminated just two years later, with Woo…
Benevolent Empire: U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World's Dispossessed
Stephen R. Porter's excellent book Benevolent Empire could not have appeared at a timelier moment. U.S. policy makers and citizens today debate how to assist victims of humanitarian crises in Syria, South Sudan, and other countries; at the same time, they deliberate over policies toward refugees from these and other war-torn regions, many of whom seek asylum in the United States. Porter provides critical historical perspective on these intertwine…
Raging Rivers and Propaganda Weevils: Transnational Disaster Relief, Cold War Politics, and the 1954 Danube and Elbe Floods
This article analyzes disaster relief efforts for the 1954 Danube and Elbe River floods. Carried out jointly by the U.S. government and the Geneva-based League of Red Cross Societies, this food aid program affected Western and Eastern Europe, and marked an important moment in Cold War political and humanitarian history.
Cold War and the Nursery
Journal Article Cold War and the Nursery Get access Sara Fieldston. Raising the World: Child Welfare in the American Century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. 328 pp. $39.95 (hardback). Julia F. Irwin Julia F. Irwin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 39, Issue 4, September 2015, Pages 784–786, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhv028 Published: 20 June 2015
Interchange: World War I
April 2017 will mark the one hundredth anniversary of American entrance into World War I. The centennial is an apt moment to reconsider how this global conflict affected the history of the United States and how American participation in the war impacted the world. In October 2014, nine leading historians of World War I engaged in an online discussion of the American wartime experience and its legacies down to the present day. Participants attempt…
Taming Total War: Great War-Era American Humanitarianism and its Legacies
This essay examines the history of American humanitarianism in the First World War and its aftermath. It analyzes both the diplomatic and cultural significance of humanitarianism to U.S. foreign affairs. It also considers the legacies of Great War-era relief.
Interwar Internationalism and Imperialism; or, Taking Idealism Seriously
Journal Article Interwar Internationalism and Imperialism; or, Taking Idealism Seriously Get access Daniel Gorman, The Emergence of International Society in the 1920s. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xii + 387 pp. Tables, notes, index. $99.00 (cloth) Julia F. Irwin Julia F. Irwin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 38, Issue 5, November 2014, Pages 1164–1166, https://doi…
Eric R. Smith. American Relief Aid and the Spanish Civil War
The story of United States involvement in the Spanish Civil War, in much of the historiography and in popular memory, has tended to focus on the small contingent of U.S. citizens who volunteered in Europe on the side of the Spanish Republic, a group famously dramatized in Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Yet as Eric R. Smith demonstrates, it is also important to study the movement to aid Republican Spain within the United States…
Teaching “Americanism with a World Perspective”: The Junior Red Cross in the U.S. Schools from 1917 to the 1920s
The involvement of the United States in World War I, from April 1917 to November 1918, marked a high point in the history of American internationalist thought and engagement. During those nineteen months, President Woodrow Wilson and his administration called on Americans to aid European civilians and to support Wilson's plans for a peacetime League of Nations, defining both as civic obligations; many responded positively. The postwar years, howe…
Sauvons les Bébés: Child Health and U.S. Humanitarian Aid in the First World War Era
From 1917 to 1923, the American Red Cross organized an array of long-term child health projects in Europe as part of its larger wartime and post-war humanitarian efforts. Across the continent, the organization established child health clinics, better baby shows, playgrounds, fresh air camps, and courses for women on infant and child hygiene. Hundreds of U.S. doctors, nurses, and other child welfare professionals traveled to Europe to administer t…
Interchange: World War I
April 2017 will mark the one hundredth anniversary of American entrance into World War I. The centennial is an apt moment to reconsider how this global conflict affected the history of the United States and how American participation in the war impacted the world. In October 2014, nine leading historians of World War I engaged in an online discussion of the American wartime experience and its legacies down to the present day. Participants attempt…
Introduction: On Disaster
Disasters-and related topics such as risk, forecasting, and anthropogenic climate change-are of increasing interest to historians of science and allied fields. The very concept, however, is a slippery one, raising a host of related questions. What types of events or processes truly constitute "disasters"? How have disasters been defined historically, and how have these categories shifted over time? How have science and technology shaped social an…
Benevolent Empire: U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World's Dispossessed
Stephen R. Porter's excellent book Benevolent Empire could not have appeared at a timelier moment. U.S. policy makers and citizens today debate how to assist victims of humanitarian crises in Syria, South Sudan, and other countries; at the same time, they deliberate over policies toward refugees from these and other war-torn regions, many of whom seek asylum in the United States. Porter provides critical historical perspective on these intertwine…
Sauvons les Bébés: Child Health and U.S. Humanitarian Aid in the First World War Era
From 1917 to 1923, the American Red Cross organized an array of long-term child health projects in Europe as part of its larger wartime and post-war humanitarian efforts. Across the continent, the organization established child health clinics, better baby shows, playgrounds, fresh air camps, and courses for women on infant and child hygiene. Hundreds of U.S. doctors, nurses, and other child welfare professionals traveled to Europe to administer t…
Teaching “Americanism with a World Perspective”: The Junior Red Cross in the U.S. Schools from 1917 to the 1920s
The involvement of the United States in World War I, from April 1917 to November 1918, marked a high point in the history of American internationalist thought and engagement. During those nineteen months, President Woodrow Wilson and his administration called on Americans to aid European civilians and to support Wilson's plans for a peacetime League of Nations, defining both as civic obligations; many responded positively. The postwar years, howe…
Taming Total War: Great War-Era American Humanitarianism and its Legacies
This essay examines the history of American humanitarianism in the First World War and its aftermath. It analyzes both the diplomatic and cultural significance of humanitarianism to U.S. foreign affairs. It also considers the legacies of Great War-era relief.
Interwar Internationalism and Imperialism; or, Taking Idealism Seriously
Journal Article Interwar Internationalism and Imperialism; or, Taking Idealism Seriously Get access Daniel Gorman, The Emergence of International Society in the 1920s. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xii + 387 pp. Tables, notes, index. $99.00 (cloth) Julia F. Irwin Julia F. Irwin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 38, Issue 5, November 2014, Pages 1164–1166, https://doi…
Eric R. Smith. American Relief Aid and the Spanish Civil War
The story of United States involvement in the Spanish Civil War, in much of the historiography and in popular memory, has tended to focus on the small contingent of U.S. citizens who volunteered in Europe on the side of the Spanish Republic, a group famously dramatized in Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Yet as Eric R. Smith demonstrates, it is also important to study the movement to aid Republican Spain within the United States…
Cold War and the Nursery
Journal Article Cold War and the Nursery Get access Sara Fieldston. Raising the World: Child Welfare in the American Century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. 328 pp. $39.95 (hardback). Julia F. Irwin Julia F. Irwin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 39, Issue 4, September 2015, Pages 784–786, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhv028 Published: 20 June 2015
Interchange: World War I
April 2017 will mark the one hundredth anniversary of American entrance into World War I. The centennial is an apt moment to reconsider how this global conflict affected the history of the United States and how American participation in the war impacted the world. In October 2014, nine leading historians of World War I engaged in an online discussion of the American wartime experience and its legacies down to the present day. Participants attempt…
Raging Rivers and Propaganda Weevils: Transnational Disaster Relief, Cold War Politics, and the 1954 Danube and Elbe Floods
This article analyzes disaster relief efforts for the 1954 Danube and Elbe River floods. Carried out jointly by the U.S. government and the Geneva-based League of Red Cross Societies, this food aid program affected Western and Eastern Europe, and marked an important moment in Cold War political and humanitarian history.
The American Red Cross in Great War-Era Europe, 1914-1922
All too often, histories of the Great War identify two key events—the United States’ declaration of war against the German Empire on April 6, 1917 and the subsequent arrival of the first U.S. troops in Europe that June—as the start of U.S. participation in the conflict. American involvement in the Great War, such narratives go on to suggest, was relatively short-lived; commencing in the spring of 1917, it culminated just two years later, with Woo…
Benevolent Empire: U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World's Dispossessed
Stephen R. Porter's excellent book Benevolent Empire could not have appeared at a timelier moment. U.S. policy makers and citizens today debate how to assist victims of humanitarian crises in Syria, South Sudan, and other countries; at the same time, they deliberate over policies toward refugees from these and other war-torn regions, many of whom seek asylum in the United States. Porter provides critical historical perspective on these intertwine…
Introduction: On Disaster
Disasters-and related topics such as risk, forecasting, and anthropogenic climate change-are of increasing interest to historians of science and allied fields. The very concept, however, is a slippery one, raising a host of related questions. What types of events or processes truly constitute "disasters"? How have disasters been defined historically, and how have these categories shifted over time? How have science and technology shaped social an…
Our Climatic Moment: Hazarding a History of the United States and the World
The Cornucopia and Pandora’s Box
In late 1953, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower addressed the United Nations General Assembly, advancing a bold new vision for the atomic age. Even as he acknowledged the existential threats that nuclear weapons posed, Eisenhower stressed that atomic energy could—and indeed, must—be harnessed for peaceful purposes. He went on to outline a wide array of civilian applications for nuclear energy, in such areas as agriculture, medicine, and electri…
A First Responder to the World
In the twenty-first century, providing humanitarian assistance to other nations forms an essential part of the U.S. military's mission. Designed to “relieve or reduce endemic conditions such as human suffering, disease, hunger, [and] privation,” the military's humanitarian tasks include such activities as assisting refugees, delivering food and medical equipment to partner nations, and removing unexploded landmines. 1 But among the most recognize…
Friends in a Warring World
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