American orientalism
Subtitle: the United States and the Middle East since 1945
By: Douglas Little.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
Subjects: Orientalism -- United States.; Nationalism -- Middle East.; Arab-Israeli conflict.; Middle East -- Relations -- United States.; United States -- Relations -- Middle East.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-400) and index.
"With a new epilogue by the author"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Gideon's band in the Holy Land : we're not in Kansas anymore; title: Orientalism, American style : the Middle East in the mind of America; title: Opening the door : business, diplomacy, and America's stake in Middle East oil; title: The making of a special relationship : America and Israel; title: A tale of four doctrines : U.S. national security, the Soviet threat, and the Middle East; title: Sympathy for the devil? : America, Nasser, and Arab revolutionary nationalism; title: Modernizing the Middle East : from reform to revolution in Iraq, Libya, and Iran; title: Kicking the Vietnam syndrome : waging limited war from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf; title: Opportunities lost and found : the United States and the Arab-Israeli peace process; title: Fool's errand or Kodak moment? : America and the Middle East at the dawn of the twenty-first century; title: Not your father's Persian Gulf War : the Bush doctrine, Iraq, and Islam.