02623cam a2200373 a 4500 14618557 OSt 20241121122613.0 061101s2007 nyuabcf b 001 0 eng 2006036571 GBA6A5867 bnb 013629208 Uk 9780393058260 (hardcover) 0393058263 (hardcover) (OCoLC)ocm74965235 GAFCSC LIBRARY eng aw----- n-us--- DS63.2.U5 O3 Oren, Michael B., 1955- Power, faith, and fantasy : America in the Middle East, 1776 to the present / Michael B. Oren. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007. xxii, 778 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm. Color maps on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references (p. [685]-733) and index. 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. Middle East Foreign relations United States. United States Foreign relations Middle East. Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip074/2006036571.html Book review (H-Net) http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=21879 Book review (H-Net) http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=22342 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK DS63.2.U5 O3 0 2374 2374 0 0 lcc 0 0 REF GAFC GAFC GEN 2024-11-21 0 DS63.2.U5 O3 2024-3803 2024-11-21 12:26:42 C.1 (1) 2024-11-21 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 REF GAFC GAFC GEN 2024-11-21 0 DS63.2.U5 O3 2024-3821 2024-11-22 08:02:24 C.1 (2) 2024-11-21 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 REF GAFC GAFC GEN 2024-11-21 0 DS63.2.U5 O3 2024-3822 2024-11-22 08:02:24 C.1 (3) 2024-11-21 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 REF GAFC GAFC GEN 2024-11-21 0 DS63.2.U5 O3 2024-3823 2024-11-22 08:02:24 C.1 (4) 2024-11-21 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 REF GAFC GAFC GEN 2024-11-21 0 DS63.2.U5 O3 2024-3824 2024-11-22 08:02:24 C.1 (5) 2024-11-21 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 REF GAFC GAFC GEN 2024-11-21 0 DS63.2.U5 O3 2024-3825 2024-11-22 08:02:24 C.1 (6) 2024-11-21 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 REF GAFC GAFC GEN 2024-11-21 0 DS63.2.U5 O3 2024-3826 2024-11-22 08:02:24 C.1 (7) 2024-11-21 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 REF GAFC GAFC GEN 2024-11-21 0 DS63.2.U5 O3 2024-3827 2024-11-22 08:02:24 C.1 (8) 2024-11-21 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 REF GAFC GAFC GEN 2024-11-21 0 DS63.2.U5 O3 2024-3828 2024-11-22 08:02:24 C.1 (9) 2024-11-21 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 REF GAFC GAFC GEN 2024-11-21 0 DS63.2.U5 O3 2024-3829 2024-11-22 08:02:24 C.1 (10) 2024-11-21 BK