Book contents
- Night on Earth
- Human Rights in History
- Night on Earth
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Text
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 A Loose Configuration of Humanitarian Actors
- 2 From Repatriation to Resettlement of Ottoman Armenians
- 3 The Near East Relief
- 4 The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
- 5 Relief and Rehabilitation in Transcaucasia, 1919–1929
- 6 The American Red Cross in Jerusalem and Palestine, 1918–1921
- 7 International Humanitarian Actors in Beirut, Aleppo, and Cilicia
- 8 The Revealing History of an Allied Fact-Finding Mission in the Sea of Marmara and a Lone Delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross
- 9 International Humanitarian Operations in Greece before and after the Summer of 1922
- 10 Rehabilitation without Relief
- 11 The American Women’s Hospitals from Macronissi Quarantine Island to Public Health Work
- 12 Modernization, Technical Assistance and Development avant la lettre
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
12 - Modernization, Technical Assistance and Development avant la lettre
The Near East Foundation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 December 2021
Book contents
- Night on Earth
- Human Rights in History
- Night on Earth
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Text
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 A Loose Configuration of Humanitarian Actors
- 2 From Repatriation to Resettlement of Ottoman Armenians
- 3 The Near East Relief
- 4 The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
- 5 Relief and Rehabilitation in Transcaucasia, 1919–1929
- 6 The American Red Cross in Jerusalem and Palestine, 1918–1921
- 7 International Humanitarian Actors in Beirut, Aleppo, and Cilicia
- 8 The Revealing History of an Allied Fact-Finding Mission in the Sea of Marmara and a Lone Delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross
- 9 International Humanitarian Operations in Greece before and after the Summer of 1922
- 10 Rehabilitation without Relief
- 11 The American Women’s Hospitals from Macronissi Quarantine Island to Public Health Work
- 12 Modernization, Technical Assistance and Development avant la lettre
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The last chapter of the book is on the Near East Foundation and the ideas of modernization, of technical assistance and proto-development. It connects the activities of the NEF with domestic and colonial experiences of some of its predecessors such as the Phelps Stokes Fund. It shows the extent to which humanitarian visions and practices were based on experiences in the American South on behalf of autochthonous populations and African Americans.
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- Night on EarthA History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918–1930, pp. 289 - 309Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021