Power, faith, and fantasy : America in the Middle East, 1776 to the present /
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Language: English
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New York :
W.W. Norton and Co.,
c2007.
Edition: 1st ed.
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Call Number: DS63.2 .U5 O54 2007
Table of Contents:
- •Prologue : a passage to glory •Introduction : recovering a pivotal past •Pt. 1. •Early America encounters the Middle East •1. •A mortal and mortifying threat •2. •The hostile and ethereal Orient •3. •A crucible of American identity •4. •Illuminating and emancipating the world •Pt. 2. •The Middle East and antebellum America •5. •Confluence and conflict •6. •Manifest Middle Eastern destiny •7. •Under American eyes •Pt. 3. •The Civil War and Reconstruction •8. •Fission •9. •Rebs and Yanks on the Nile •10. •The trumpet that never calls retreat •11. •American onslaught •12. •Resurgence •Pt. 4. •The age of Imperialism •13. •Empires at dawn •14. •Imperial Piety •15. •Imperial Myths •16. •A region renamed and reordered •Pt. 5. •America, the Middle East, and the Great War •17. •Spectators of catastrophe •18. •Action or nonaction? •19. •An American movement is born •20. •Arise, O Arabs, and awake! •21. •The first Middle East peace process •22. •Fantasies revived •Pt. 6. •Oil, war, and ascendancy •23. •From Bibles to drill bits •24. •An insoluble conflict evolves •25. •A torch for the Middle East •26. •The Middle East and the man from Missouri •Pt. 7. •In search of Pax Americana •27. •Harmony and hegemony •28. •The Thirty Years' War •Epilogue : a profound and visceral gratitude.