Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"Impressive... Watenpaugh blends analysis of structural and political changes across a century of history with sensitive attention to the experiences of individual humanitarian actors and beneficiaries." H-Net "Its transnational approach and accessible prose are fitting for undergraduate and graduate courses. It will also appeal to specialized and general audiences. Bread from Stones deserves to be widely read and assigned." -- Osamah F. Khalil Diplomatic History