# BOOK REVIEW: SÃ©bastien FarrÃ©, Colis de guerre. Secours alimentaire et organisations humanitaires (1914-1947), Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2014, 288 pages, ISBN: 978-2-7535-3419-3

Yves DenÃ©chÃ¨re () Additional contact information Yves DenÃ©chÃ¨re: Angers University, France Eastern Journal of European Studies, 2014, vol. 5(2), 181-183 Abstract: By suggesting a study on the mutual aid actions by means of the war parcel â one of the most symbolic issues of the support actions throughout this period â SÃ©bastien FarrÃ©, a scientist in charge of the History House of Geneva University (Maison de lâhistoire de lâUniversitÃ© de GenÃ¨ve) , has a new way of seeing the history of humanitarian organisations. By opening the parcel, by wondering about its route from manufacture to distribution to the beneficiaries, he is rebuilding a humanitarian story crossing the social and cultural history of philanthropic acts. Placing himself into the real world, he departs from the literature written by the humanitarian actors; he is placing again the history of the humanitarian institutions in the field of social policies; he is drawing up a study on the humanitarian economy. In this respect the sources are numerous, issued by ICRC, IUWC, CARE, UNRRA, etc. Itâs about looking into the archives by taking advantage of this sojourn as a researcher invited at Columbia University or at Oxford University. The photographical notebook consisting of 32 pages includes 59 quality photos which are not just pictures but constitute a real iconographic corpus. However, itâs a pity that certain photos are not dated and the chronology is manhandled throughout the story. Keywords: UNRRA; CARE (search for similar items in EconPapers) Date: 2014 References: Add references at CitEc Citations: Downloads: (external link)http://ejes.uaic.ro/articles/EJES2014_0502_DEE.pdf (application/pdf) Related works:This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title. Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:jes:journl:y:2014:v:5:p:181-183 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Eastern Journal of European Studies from Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Contact information at EDIRC.Bibliographic data for series maintained by Alupului Ciprian ().