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

Keith David Watenpaugh c2015 © University of California Press
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  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520279308 (hardcover)
  • 9780520960800 (ebook)
  • 9780520279322 (paper)
Subject
  • Middle Eastern: General & Multiperiod
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Cover
  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page ix)
  • Preface and Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • Note on Translation and Transliteration (page xviii)
  • List of Abbreviations (page xix)
  • 1. The Beginnings of the Humanitarian Era in the Eastern Mediterranean (page 1)
  • 2. The Humanitarian Imagination and the Year of the Locust: International Relief in the Wartime Eastern Mediterranean, 1914-1918 (page 30)
  • 3. The Form and Content of Suffering: Humanitarian Knowledge, Mass Publics, and the Report, 1885-1927 (page 57)
  • 4. "America's Wards": Near East Relief and American Humanitarian Exceptionalism, 1919-1923 (page 91)
  • 5. The League of Nations Rescue of Trafficked Women and Children and the Paradox of Modern Humanitarianism, 1920-1936 (page 124)
  • 6. Between Refugee and Citizen: The Practical Failures of Modern Humanitarianism, 1923-1939 (page 157)
  • 7. Modern Humanitarianism's Troubled Legacies, 1927-1948 (page 183)
  • Notes (page 205)
  • Select Bibliography (page 233)
  • Index (page 241)
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