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. - New York , c2007. | | xxii, 778 p., maps ; 23 cm. | | Color maps on lining papers. | | 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. | | ISBN 9780393058260 (cloth) | | .-ISBN 0393058263 (cloth). | | | | 1. Middle East - United States - Foreign relations 2. United States - Middle East - Foreign relations.I. Title | | | Library : UITM Melaka |
| | Accn No. | Item Status | Add Id | Location | SMD | Item Category | | 1002108 | Ready For Cataloguing | | PERPUSTAKAAN TUN ABDUL RAZAK(P1) | BOOK | RAK TERBUKA (OPEN SHELVES) |
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