Bread from Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism - Couverture souple

Watenpaugh, Keith David

 
9780520279322: Bread from Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism
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ISBN 10 : 0520279328 ISBN 13 : 9780520279322
Editeur : University of California Press, 2014

Synopsis

Bread from Stones, a highly anticipated book from historian 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.

Bread from Stones is required reading for those interested in humanitarianism and its ideological, institutional, and legal origins, as well as the evolution of the movement following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the advent of late colonialism in the Middle East.

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À propos de l'auteur

Keith David Watenpaugh is a historian, Associate Professor of Human Rights Studies, and Director of the Human Rights Initiative at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Being Modern in the Middle East and has published in the American Historical Review, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Journal of Human Rights, Social History, and Humanity.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520279328
ISBN 13 
9780520279322
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780520279308: Bread from Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0520279301 ISBN 13 :  9780520279308
Editeur : University of California Press, 2015
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