Power, faith, and fantasy America in the Middle East, 1776 to the present
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c2007
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Power, faith, and fantasy |b America in the Middle East, 1776 to the present |c Michael B. Oren. |
| 250 | # | # | |a 1st ed. |
| 260 | 3 | # | |a New York |b W. W. Norton |c c2007 |
| 300 | # | # | |a xxii, 778 p., maps |c 23 cm |
| 500 | # | # | |a Color maps on lining papers |
| 504 | # | # | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [685]-733) and index |
| 505 | 0 | # | |a Chronology -- Prologue: A passage to glory -- Introduction: Recovering a pivotal past -- Pt. 1: Early America encounters the Middle East. A mortal and mortifying threat ; The hostile and ethereal Orient ; A crucible of American identity ; Illuminating and emancipating the world -- Pt. 2: The Middle East and antebellum America. Confluence and conflict ; Manifest Middle Eastern destiny ; Under American eyes -- Pt. 3: The Civil War and Reconstruction. Fission ; Rebs and Yanks on the Nile ; The trumpet that never calls retreat ; American onslaught ; Resurgence -- Pt. 4: The age of imperialism. Empires at dawn ; Imperial piety ; Imperial myths ; A region renamed and reordered -- Pt. 5: America, the Middle East, and the Great War. Spectators of catastrophe ; Action or nonaction? ; An American movement is born ; Arise, o Arabs, and awake! ; The first Middle East peace process ; Fantasies revived -- Pt. 6: Oil, war, and ascendancy. From Bibles to drill bits ; An insoluble conflict evolves ; A torch for the Middle East ; The Middle East and the man from Missouri -- Pt. 7: In search of Pax Americana. Harmony and hegemony ; The thirty years' war -- Epilogue: A profound and visceral gratitude |
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