TY  - BOOK
AU  - Amanat,Abbas
AU  - Bernhardsson,Magnus Thorkell
TI  - U.S.-Middle East historical encounters: a critical survey 
SN  - 9780813039978
AV  - DS63.2.U5 U85 2007eb
U1  - 303.48/273056 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Gainesville
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Globalization
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - International relations
KW  - fast
KW  - Außenpolitik
KW  - gnd
KW  - Kulturkonflikt
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Relations
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Moyen-Orient
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Naher Osten
KW  - USA
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - At a time when relations between the United States and the Middle East seem to be based on mutual misunderstandings, intolerance, violence, and distrust, this cutting-edge collection of essays reveals that the history of this relationship is richer and more complex than recent events suggest
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