Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Human disasters: humanitarianism and the transnational turn in the wake of World War I
- 1 “Rights, not charity”: René Cassin and war victims
- 2 Justice and peace: Albert Thomas, the International Labor Organization, and the dream of a transnational politics of social rights
- 3 The tragedy of being stateless: Fridtjof Nansen and the rights of refugees
- 4 The hungry and the sick: Herbert Hoover, the Russian famine, and the professionalization of humanitarian aid
- 5 Humanitarianism old and new: Eglantyne Jebb and children's rights
- Conclusion Human dignity: from humanitarian rights to human rights
- Further reading
- Bibliography
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Human disasters: humanitarianism and the transnational turn in the wake of World War I
- 1 “Rights, not charity”: René Cassin and war victims
- 2 Justice and peace: Albert Thomas, the International Labor Organization, and the dream of a transnational politics of social rights
- 3 The tragedy of being stateless: Fridtjof Nansen and the rights of refugees
- 4 The hungry and the sick: Herbert Hoover, the Russian famine, and the professionalization of humanitarian aid
- 5 Humanitarianism old and new: Eglantyne Jebb and children's rights
- Conclusion Human dignity: from humanitarian rights to human rights
- Further reading
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918–1924 , pp. 360 - 390Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014