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U.S.-Middle East historical encounters : a critical survey / edited by Abbas Amanat and Magnus T. Bernhardsson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Middle East--Relations--United States.
- Middle East.
- United States--Relations--Middle East.
- United States.
- Middle East--History--19th century.
- Middle East--History--20th century.
- United States--History--19th century.
- United States--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- At a time when relations between the United States and the Middle East seem to be based on mutual misunderstandings, intolerance, violence, and distrust, this cutting-edge collection of essays reveals that the history of this relationship is richer and more complex than recent events suggest.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-3997-5
- OCLC:
- 746746852
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