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100 1 $aOren, Michael B.,$d1955-
245 10 $aPower, faith, and fantasy :$bAmerica in the Middle East, 1776 to the present /$cMichael B. Oren.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W.Norton & Co.,$c2007.
263 $a0701
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aChronology -- Prologue: a passage to glory -- Introduction: recovering a pivotal past. Part one. 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. Part two. The Middle East and antebellum America -- Confluence and conflict -- Manifest Middle Eastern destiny -- Under American eyes. Part three. The Civil War and Reconstruction -- Fission -- Rebs and Yanks on the Nile -- The trumpet that never calls retreat -- American onslaught -- Resurgence. Part four. The age of imperialism -- Empires at dawn -- Imperial piety -- Imperial myths -- A region renamed and reordered Part five. 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. Part six. 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. Part seven. In search of Pax Americana -- Harmony and hegemony -- The thirty years' war epilogue: a profound and visceral gratitude -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
651 0 $aMiddle East$xForeign relations$zUnited States.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zMiddle East.
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