Bibliograph

Power, faith, and fantasy, America in the Middle East, 1776 to the present, Michael B. Oren

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Power, faith, and fantasy, America in the Middle East, 1776 to the present, Michael B. Oren

Language

eng

Bibliography note

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

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illustrationsmapsportraitsplates

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Power, faith, and fantasy

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

49759674965235

Responsibility statement

Michael B. Oren

Sub title

America in the Middle East, 1776 to the present

Table Of Contents

Chronology -- Prologue: a passage to glory -- Introduction: recovering a pivotal past. Part one. 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. Part two. The Middle East and antebellum America -- Confluence and conflict -- Manifest Middle Eastern destiny -- Under American eyes. Part three. The Civil War and Reconstruction -- Fission -- Rebs and Yanks on the Nile -- The trumpet that never calls retreat -- American onslaught -- Resurgence. Part four. The age of imperialism -- Empires at dawn -- Imperial piety -- Imperial myths -- A region renamed and reordered. Part five. 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. Part six. 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. Part seven. In search of Pax Americana -- Harmony and hegemony -- The thirty years' war -- Epilogue: a profound and visceral gratitude -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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