The charity of war famine, humanitarian aid, and World War I in the Middle East
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Stanford, CA
Stanford University Press
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : total war: politics, power, and benevolence-- A city and its mountain, a mountain and its city
- Wartime famine : strategies, logistics, and catastrophe
- The politics of food : wartime provisioning for civilians
- Prayers and patrons : the politics of neutrality
- Rats, lice, and microbes : the struggle against infectious disease
- Local relief initiatives : civil society, women, and the state
- Beneficial benevolence : international wartime relief efforts
- Conclusion : Beirut 1919: the chaos of memory and politics