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ContentsChronology xivPrologue: A Passage to Glory 3Introduction: Recovering a Pivotal Past 9Part OneEarly America Encounters the Middle East 1. A Mortal and Mortifying Threat 17 2. The Hostile and Ethereal Orient 41 3. A Crucible of American Identity 51 4. Illuminating and Emancipating the World 80Part TwoThe Middle East and Antebellum America 5. Confluence and Conflict 101 6. Manifest Middle Eastern Destiny 122 7. Under American Eyes 149Part ThreeThe Civil War and Reconstruction 8. Fission 177 9. Rebs and Yanks on the Nile 190 10. The Trumpet That Never Calls Retreat 210 11. American Onslaught 228 12. Resurgence 246Part FourThe Age of Imperialism 13. Empires at Dawn 257 14. Imperial Piety 273 15. Imperial Myths 297 16. A Region Renamed and Reordered 307Part FiveAmerica, the Middle East, and the Great War 17. Spectators of Catastrophe 325 18. Action or Nonaction? 340 19. An American Movement Is Born 351 20. Arise, O Arabs, and Awake! 367 21. The First Middle East Peace Process 376 22. Fantasies Revived 398Part SixOil, War, and Ascendancy 23. From Bibles to Drill Bits 407 24. An Insoluble Conflict Evolves 420 25. A Torch for the Middle East 446 26. The Middle East and the Man from Missouri 475Part SevenIn Search of Pax Americana 27. Harmony and Hegemony 505 28. The Thirty Years' War 550Epilogue: A Profound and Visceral Gratitude 595Notes 605Bibliography 685Acknowledgments 735Index 739
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Middle East -- Foreign relations -- United States.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Middle East.