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Bread from stones : the Middle East and the making of modern humanitarianism / Keith David Watenpaugh.
Author
Watenpaugh, Keith David, 1966-
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Language
English
Published/Created
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
©2015
Description
xix, 251 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
BJ1475.3 .W38 2015
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Humanitarianism
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Middle East
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Humanitarianism
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History
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20th century
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Summary note
"Keith David Watenpaugh breaks new ground in analyzing the theory and practice of modern humanitarianism. Genocide and mass violence, human trafficking, and the forced displacement of millions in the early twentieth century Eastern Mediterranean form the background for this exploration of humanitarianism's role in the history of human rights. Watenpaugh's unique and provocative examination of humanitarian thought and action from a non-Western perspective goes beyond canonical descriptions of relief work and development projects. Employing a wide range of source materials--literary and artistic responses to violence, memoirs, and first-person accounts from victims, perpetrators, relief workers, and diplomats--Watenpaugh argues that the international answer to the inhumanity of World War I in the Middle East laid the foundation for modern humanitarianism and the specific ways humanitarian groups and international organizations help victims of war, care for trafficked children, and aid refugees."--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The beginnings of the humanitarian era in the Eastern Mediterranean
The humanitarian imagination and the year of the locust : international relief in the wartime Eastern Mediterranean, 1914-1918
The form and content of suffering : humanitarian knowledge, mass publics, and the report, 1885-1927
"America's wards" : Near East relief and American humanitarian exceptionalism, 1919-1923
The League of Nations rescue of trafficked women and children and the paradox of modern humanitarianism, 1920-1936
Between refugee and citizen : the practical failures of modern humanitarianism in the interwar Eastern Mediterranean, 1923-1939
Modern humanitarianism's troubled legacies, 1927-1948.
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ISBN
9780520279308 (cloth)
0520279301 (cloth)
9780520279322 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520279328 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2014040823
OCLC
893609443
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