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

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By (author): Keith David Watenpaugh

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. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 363g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 01 May 2015
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780520279322

About Keith David Watenpaugh

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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