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" Power, faith, and fantasy "
/ Michael B. Oren
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The Center of European Languages of Qom(Ale Beit Publications)
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BL
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3348
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b134
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English
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| Main Entry
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Oren, Michael B., 1955
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Power, faith, and fantasy:America in the Middle East, 1776 to the present/ Michael B. Oren
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York: W.W. Norton & Co.,, c2007.
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xxii, 778 p., [32] p. of plates: ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
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9780393058260(hardcover)
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Color maps on lining papers.
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Print
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [685]-733) and index.
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| Contents
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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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Middle EastForeign relations--United States
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United StatesForeign relations--Middle East
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327.73056
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DS63.2.U5,O54 2007
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