{"product_id":"mirage-of-the-saracen-9780520283770","title":"Mirage of the Saracen","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fine study of Christian colonization, spatial and spiritual, of the Sinai Peninsula... a very good book.\" -- E. J. Hutchinson Bryn Mawr Classical Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface 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","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402873119063,"sku":"9780520283770","price":46.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520283770.jpg?v=1730481743","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mirage-of-the-saracen-9780520283770","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}