America in the Middle East, 1776 to the present Oren, Michael B. 1955- creator text bibliography nyu New York W.W. Norton & Co. c2007 2007 1st ed. monographic eng

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xxii, 778 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm. 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. Michael B. Oren. Color maps on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references (p. [685]-733) and index. aw----- n-us--- Middle East Foreign relations United States United States Foreign relations Middle East DS63.2.U5 O3 9780393058260 (hardcover) 0393058263 (hardcover) 2006036571 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip074/2006036571.html http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=21879 http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=22342 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip074/2006036571.html http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=21879 http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=22342 061101 20241121122613.0 14618557 eng