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1 online resource (242 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Middle East -- Relations -- United States.
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Middle East. |
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Relations. |
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United States. |
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United States -- Relations -- Middle East.
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Middle East -- History -- 19th century.
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Middle East -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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United States -- History -- 19th century.
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United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Amanat, Abbas.
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Bernhardsson, Magnus Thorkell.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: U.S.-Middle East historical encounters. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2007 9780813031477 (DLC) 2007027408 (OCoLC)150256386 |
| ISBN |
9780813039978 (electronic book) |
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0813039975 (electronic book) |
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9780813031477 |
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0813031478 |
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