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U.S.-Middle East historical encounters :

0813031478 (alk. paper)

9780813031477 (alk. paper)

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U.S.-Middle East historical encounters :

[Book]

a critical survey /

edited by Abbas Amanat and Magnus T. Bernhardsson

Gainesville :

University Press of Florida,

c2007

242 p. ;

25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

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

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Middle East, History, 19th century

Middle East, History, 20th century

Middle East, Relations, United States

United States, History, 19th century

United States, History, 20th century

United States, Relations, Middle East

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Amanat, Abbas

Bernhardsson, Magnus Thorkell

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