Bread from stones : the Middle East and the making of modern humanitarianism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Watenpaugh, Keith David, 1966- (Author)
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Subjects:	Humanitarianism > Middle East. Humanitarianism > History > 20th century. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.