Power, faith, and fantasy
Subtitle: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the present
By: Michael B. Oren ; [with a new afterword].
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 791
ISBN-13: 9780393330304
Subjects: Middle East -- Foreign relations -- United States.; United States -- Foreign relations -- Middle East.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [693]-741 and index.
Table of contents: title: Chronology; title: Prologue: A passage to glory; title: Introduction: Recovering a pivotal past; title: 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; title: Pt. 2: The Middle East and antebellum America. Confluence and conflict ; Manifest Middle Eastern destiny ; Under American eyes; title: Pt. 3: The Civil War and Reconstruction. Fission ; Rebs and Yanks on the Nile ; The trumpet that never calls retreat ; American onslaught ; Resurgence; title: Pt. 4: The age of imperialism. Empires at dawn ; Imperial piety ; Imperial myths ; A region renamed and reordered; title: 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; title: 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; title: Pt. 7: In search of Pax Americana. Harmony and hegemony ; The thirty years' war; title: Epilogue: A profound and visceral gratitude.