Power, faith, and fantasy : America in the Middle East, 1776 to the present / Michael B. Oren.
2007
327.73056 O66p 2007
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Title
Power, faith, and fantasy : America in the Middle East, 1776 to the present / Michael B. Oren.
Author
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780393058260 (hardcover)
0393058263 (hardcover)
0393058263 (hardcover)
Imprint
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007.
Language
English
Description
xxii, 778 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
327.73056 O66p 2007
System Control No.
(OCoLC)74965235
(OCoLC)74965235
(OCoLC)74965235
Summary
Drawing on thousands of government documents and personal letters, featuring original maps and over sixty photographs, this book reconstructs the diverse and remarkable ways in which Americans have interacted with this alluring yet often hostile land stretching from Morocco to Iran, from the Persian Gulf to the Bosporus.--From publisher description.
Note
Color maps on lining papers.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [685]-733) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Chronology
Prologue: A passage to glory
Introduction: Recovering a pivotal past
pt. 1: Early America encounters the Middle East. A mortal and mortifying threat ; The hostile and ethereal Orient ; A crucible of American identity ; Illuminating and emancipating the world
pt. 2: The Middle East and antebellum America. Confluence and conflict ; Manifest Middle Eastern destiny ; Under American eyes
pt. 3: The Civil War and Reconstruction. Fission ; Rebs and Yanks on the Nile ; The trumpet that never calls retreat ; American onslaught ; Resurgence
pt. 4: The age of imperialism. Empires at dawn ; Imperial piety ; Imperial myths ; A region renamed and reordered
pt. 5: America, the Middle East, and the Great War. Spectators of catastrophe ; Action or nonaction? ; An American movement is born ; Arise, o Arabs, and awake! ; The first Middle East peace process ; Fantasies revived
pt. 6: Oil, war, and ascendancy. From Bibles to drill bits ; An insoluble conflict evolves ; A torch for the Middle East ; The Middle East and the man from Missouri
pt. 7: In search of Pax Americana. Harmony and hegemony ; The thirty years' war
Epilogue: A profound and visceral gratitude.
Prologue: A passage to glory
Introduction: Recovering a pivotal past
pt. 1: Early America encounters the Middle East. A mortal and mortifying threat ; The hostile and ethereal Orient ; A crucible of American identity ; Illuminating and emancipating the world
pt. 2: The Middle East and antebellum America. Confluence and conflict ; Manifest Middle Eastern destiny ; Under American eyes
pt. 3: The Civil War and Reconstruction. Fission ; Rebs and Yanks on the Nile ; The trumpet that never calls retreat ; American onslaught ; Resurgence
pt. 4: The age of imperialism. Empires at dawn ; Imperial piety ; Imperial myths ; A region renamed and reordered
pt. 5: America, the Middle East, and the Great War. Spectators of catastrophe ; Action or nonaction? ; An American movement is born ; Arise, o Arabs, and awake! ; The first Middle East peace process ; Fantasies revived
pt. 6: Oil, war, and ascendancy. From Bibles to drill bits ; An insoluble conflict evolves ; A torch for the Middle East ; The Middle East and the man from Missouri
pt. 7: In search of Pax Americana. Harmony and hegemony ; The thirty years' war
Epilogue: A profound and visceral gratitude.
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