Total Warfare and the Mixed Economy of Welfare, 1914-1950

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This edited volume examines the effects of the two world wars on the welfare systems of European societies. Chapters analyse the dynamics between states and transnational social actors, including international institutions, voluntary associations, charities, foundations, non-governmental organisations, and advocacy groups. A key focus is on the relations between local, national, European, and trans-Atlantic spheres of action. Thereby, this volume offers a novel examination of the temporal boundaries between wartime and peacetime social policies, investigating when the military mobilisations that drove social welfare came to an end. Offering an alternative history of how European societies experienced and emerged from the two world wars, this book reinterprets the connections between warfare and welfare as they contributed to a new postwar orderthe legacies of which continue to influence contemporary welfare systems today.

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Michele Mioni is Postdoctoral Researcher at Ca Foscari University in Venice and associate member of the Centre dhistoire sociale des mondes contemporains (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). Fabien Théofilakis is Assistant Professor at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a member of the Centre dhistoire sociale des mondes contemporains. Since 2024, he has been the French Deputy Director of the Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin). Simon Unger is Assistant Professor of Modern European Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary.

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