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_aPower, faith, and fantasy : _bAmerica in the Middle East, 1776 to the present / _cMichael B. Oren. |
| 250 | _a1st ed. | ||
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_aNew York : _bW.W. Norton & Co., _cc2007. |
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_axxii, 778 p., [32] p. of plates : _bill., maps, ports. ; _c25 cm. |
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| 500 | _aColor maps on lining papers. | ||
| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [685]-733) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aChronology -- 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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_aMiddle East _xForeign relations _zUnited States. |
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_aUnited States _xForeign relations _zMiddle East. |
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_3Table of contents only _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip074/2006036571.html |
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_3Book review (H-Net) _uhttp://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=21879 |
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_3Book review (H-Net) _uhttp://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=22342 |
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