U.S.-Middle East historical encounters : a critical survey / edited by Abbas Amanat and Magnus T. Bernhardsson.

Other author Amanat, Abbas.
Other author Bernhardsson, Magnus Thorkell.
Format Book
Publication InfoGainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2007.
Description242 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects
Middle East--Relations. --United States.
United States--Relations. --Middle East.
Middle East--History. --19th century.
Middle East--History. --20th century.
United States--History. --19th century.
United States--History. --20th century.

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2007027408
ISBN9780813031477 (alk. paper)
ISBN0813031478 (alk. paper)

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