U.S.-Middle East historical encounters : a critical survey
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Amanat, Abbas
Bernhardsson, Magnus Thorkell |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
2007.
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| Umfang/Format: |
242 p. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0813031478 9780813031477 |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.
