02782cam a2200457 i 4500 114018 20230410103922.0 110622t20122102cau b 001 0 eng c 16839231 2011026603 9780804775267 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780804775274 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0804775273 CSt/DLC eng DLC rda DLC pcc aw----- 439 DS 44.9 I87 2012 911 Is there a Middle East? : the evolution of a geopolitical concept / edited by Michael E. Bonine, Abbas Amanat, and Michael Ezekiel Gasper. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012 xix, 319 pages ; 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-306) and index. Introduction : 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. Middle East Historical geography. Middle East Historiography. Geopolitics Middle East. Geografía histórica Historiografía. Medio Oriente Historia. Geografía Medio Oriente. Medio Oriente Relaciones exteriores. Primera Jornada de Catalogación. Bonine, Michael E., 1942- editor of compilation. Amanat, Abbas, editor of compilation. Gasper, Michael Ezekiel, 1963- editor of compilation. lcc bk CStCIP 2011-06-22 28436 28436 0 0 lcc 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2023-04-10 1 0 439 DS 44.9 I87 2012 00000107507 2018-10-23 00:00:00 1 2018-10-23 bk