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Bread from Stones : The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism /

"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 human...

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Autor principal: Watenpaugh, Keith David, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.