عنوان

Power, faith, and fantasy

9780393330304

IR

2-12768

انگلیسی

Power, faith, and fantasy

: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the present

/ Michael B. Oren.

New York

: W.W. Norton & Co.

, c2007.

xxii, 778 p., [32] p. of plates

: ill., maps, ports.

; 25 cm.

Color maps on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [685]-733) and index.

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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Middle East - Foreign relations - United States.

United States - Foreign relations - Middle East.

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Oren, Michael B.,1955-

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