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Author Watenpaugh, Keith David, 1966- author.

Title Bread from stones : the Middle East and the making of modern humanitarianism / Keith David Watenpaugh
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps
Series ACLS Fellows' Publications
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
Summary "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
Analysis academia
aleppo
arab politics
beirut
eastern mediterranean
genocide
global citizen
global humanitarian
global politics
historian
history of humanitarian efforts
history
human rights
human trafficking
humanitarian efforts in middle east
humanitarian
humanitarianism
lebanon
middle east
middle eastern politics
modern humanitarianism
politics free humanitarianism
refugee rights
relief work
syria
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Humanitarianism -- Middle East
Humanitarianism -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
Humanitarianism
Middle East
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520960800
0520960807
0520279301
9780520279308
0520279328
9780520279322