U.S.-Middle East historical encounters : a critical survey / edited by Abbas Amanat and Magnus T. Bernhardsson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Amanat, Abbas.

Bernhardsson, Magnus Thorkell.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Middle East--Relations--United States.

Middle East.

Relations.

United States.

United States--Relations--Middle East.

Middle East--History--19th century.

Middle East--History--20th century.

United States--History--19th century.

United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

242 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2007]

Contents:

Introduction. From "disinterested benevolence" to "benevolent hegemony" : the development of the U.S./Middle Eastern relationship / Magnus T. Bernhardsson

On the formal study of Near Eastern languages in America, 1770-1930 / Benjamin R. Foster

American Palestine : Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and the Holy Land in the nineteenth-century American Imagination / Hilton Obenzinger

"Drying up the Euphrates" : Muslims, Millennialism, and Early American missionary enterprise / Timothy Marr

Missionaries, Peasants, and the protection problem : negotiating Coptic reform in nineteenth-century Egypt / Paul D. Sedra

"Is this not the ugliest of treacheries?!" diplomacy, culture, and the origins of Anti-Americanism in Egypt / Erez Manela

U.S./Iranian relations, 1911-1951 / Mansour Bonakdarian

Khomeini's great satan : demonizing the American other in the Islamic Revolution in Iran / Abbas Amanat

"Besotted with the bright lights of imperialism"? Arab subjectivity constructed against New York's many faces / Michelle Hartman

Christian Zionism and its impact on U.S. foreign policy / Lawrence Davidson

A cultural history of the war without end / Melani McAlister.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813031477

0813031478

OCLC:

150256386