Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present
Michael B. Oren (Author), 3M Company
"Will shape our thinking about America and the Middle East for years."?Christopher Dickey, NewsweekPower, Faith, and Fantasytells the remarkable story of America's 230-year relationship with the Middle East. Drawing on a vast range of government documents, personal correspondence, and the memoirs of merchants, missionaries, and travelers, Michael B. Oren narrates the unknown story of how the United States has interacted with this vibrant and turbulent region
eBook, English, 2008
W.W. Norton & Company, [Place of publication not identified], 2008
1 online resource 1 online resource (864 pages)
9780393341522, 0393341526
1014288253
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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