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Imagining the Middle East : the building of an American foreign policy, 1918-1967 / Matthew F. Jacobs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacobs, Matthew F.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islam and politics--Middle East.
- Islam and politics.
- Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Middle East--Foreign relations--United States.
- Middle East.
- United States--Foreign relations--Middle East.
- United States.
- Middle East--Foreign relations--20th century.
- United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
- Middle East--Politics and government--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (560 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- As its interests have become deeply tied to the Middle East, the United States has long sought to develop a usable understanding of the people, politics, and cultures of the region. In Imagining the Middle East, Matthew Jacobs illuminates how Americans' ideas and perspectives about the region have shaped, justified, and sustained U.S. cultural, economic, military, and political involvement there.Jacobs examines the ways in which an informal network of academic, business, government, and media specialists interpreted and shared their perceptions of the Middle East from the end of
- Contents:
- The task
- falls to the area specialists : national interests, knowledge production, and the emergence of an informal network
- The all-pervading influence of the Muslim faith : the perils and promise of political Islam
- A new amalgam of interests, religion, propaganda, and mobs : interpretations of secular mass politics
- What modernization requires of the Arabs
- is their de-Arabization : imagining a transformed Middle East
- A profound and growing disturbance
- which may last for decades : the Arab-Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the limits of the network.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908863-3-0
- 979-88-9313-465-0
- 1-4696-0278-4
- 0-8078-6931-7
- OCLC:
- 754582758
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