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Book SynopsisExamines the ways in which Christian monks justified occupying the Sinai through creating associations between Biblical narratives and Sinai sites while assigning uncivilized, negative, and oppositional traits to the indigenous nomadic population, whom the Christians pejoratively called Saracens.
Trade Review"A fine study of Christian colonization, spatial and spiritual, of the Sinai Peninsula... a very good book." -- E. J. Hutchinson Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Note on Translation and Transliteration Acronyms One: The Beginnings of the Humanitarian Era the Eastern Mediterranean Two: The Humanitarian Imagination and the Year of the Locust: International Relief in the Wartime Eastern Mediterranean, 1914-1918 Three: The Form and Content of Suffering: Humanitarian Knowledge, Mass Publics and the Report, 1885-1927 Four: 'America's Wards:' Near East Relief and American Humanitarian Exceptionalism, 1919-1923 Five: The League of Nations Rescue of Trafficked Women and Children and the Paradox of Modern Humanitarianism, 1920-1936 Six: Between Refugee and Citizen: The Practical Failures of Modern Humanitarianism in the Interwar Eastern Mediterranean, 1923-1939 Seven: Modern Humanitarianism's Troubled Legacies, 1927-1948 Notes Select Bibliography Index
