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Night on Earth
Davide Rodogno
其他書名
A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918-1930
出版Cambridge University Press, 2021-12
ISBN11086898929781108689892
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lciRzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"This book tells the story of American and European humanitarian institutions that provided food, shelter, clothing, and basic medical aid to distressed civilian populations in the Near East during the interwar years. It uncovers the untold tale of their ambition to go beyond relief, to rehabilitate and reconstruct a 'new' Near East. Wherever these humanitarian institutions operated, they imagined a prosperous, peaceful future enhanced by their shortterm relief actions and improved by their agricultural, educational, public health rehabilitative programs. Yet like a cloud, humanitarian aid was an intense but ephemeral phenomenon that - despite the ambitions of its protagonists - failed to leave a permanent trace"--