Overview

Started as a temporary organization, UNICEF navigated Cold War tensions in order to provide assistance to millions of children and their parents throughout the world. The Origins of UNICEF, 1946 1953 reveals how the most well-known child-relief aid organization in the world came into being.

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The Origins of UNICEF, 1946-1953 is an important analysis of global organization in the Cold War era. In tracing UNICEF's evolution from temporary institution to permanent status, Morris shows us not just how international politics, and particularly US policy, influenced this organization, but how US and Western cultural concepts of the family were packaged with relief work. Morris' book is a reminder that even the most seemingly apolitical gestures of philanthropy are laden with political and cultural meaning.--Krista Sigler, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College

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Jennifer M. Morris is associate professor of European, world, and women's history at Mount St. Joseph University.

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