Inhaltsangabe: U.S.-Middle East historical encounters :

Weitere Verfasser:	Amanat, Abbas. Bernhardsson, Magnus Thorkell.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr:	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2007.
Umfang/Format:	242 p. ; 25 cm.

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.