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050 00 $aDS44.9$b.I8 2012
082 00 $a911/.56$223
245 00 $aIs there a Middle East? :$bthe evolution of a geopolitical concept /$cedited by Michael E. Bonine, Abbas Amanat, and Michael Ezekiel Gasper.
260 $aStanford, California :$bStanford University Press,$c[2012], ©2012.
300 $axix, 319 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 277-306) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : Is there a Middle East? : problematizing a virtual space / Abbas Amanat -- The Eastern question and the Ottoman Empire : the genesis of the Near and Middle East in the nineteenth century / Huseyin Yilmaz -- British and U.S. use and misuse of the term 'Middle East' / Roger Adelson -- Of maps and regions : where is the geographer's Middle East? / Michael E. Bonine -- Why are there no Middle Easterners in the Maghrib? / Ramzi Rouighi -- When did the Holy Land stop being holy? : surveying the Middle East as sacred geography / Daniel Martin Varisco -- The river's edge : the steppes of the Oxus and the boundaries of the Near/Middle East and Central Asia, c.1500-1800 / Arash Khazeni -- An Islamicate Eurasia : vernacular perspectives on the early modern world / Gagan D.S. Sood -- Scorched earth : the problematic environmental history that defines the Middle East / Diana K. Davis -- American global economic policy and the civic order in the Middle East / James L. Gelvin -- The Middle East through the lens of critical geopolitics : globalization, terrorism, and the Iraq War / Waleed Hazbun -- Conclusion : There is a Middle East! / Michael Ezekiel Gasper.
651 0 $aMiddle East$xHistorical geography.
651 0 $aMiddle East$xHistoriography.
650 0 $aGeopolitics$zMiddle East.
700 1 $aBonine, Michael E.,$d1942-$eeditor of compilation.
700 1 $aAmanat, Abbas,$eeditor of compilation.
700 1 $aGasper, Michael Ezekiel,$d1963-$eeditor of compilation.