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A complicated kindness: the Iowa famine relief movement and the myth of Midwestern (and American) isolationism
- Source :
- The Historian. Fall, 2011, Vol. 73 Issue 3, p480, 23 p.
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- IN DECEMBER 1892, America's ambassador to St. Petersburg wrote to an Iowa newsman regarding Russia's ongoing famine. Claiming peasant diets consisted of bread made from 'rye and straw, rye and [...]
- Subjects :
- Midwestern United States -- Social aspects
Humanitarian aid -- History
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00182370
- Volume :
- 73
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Gale General OneFile
- Journal :
- The Historian
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsgcl.269228815