the evolution of a geopolitical concept Bonine, Michael E. 1942- editor of compilation. Amanat, Abbas editor of compilation. Gasper, Michael Ezekiel 1963- editor of compilation. text bibliography cau Stanford, California Stanford University Press 2012 2102 monographic eng

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xix, 319 pages ; 24 cm 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. edited by Michael E. Bonine, Abbas Amanat, and Michael Ezekiel Gasper. Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-306) and index. aw----- 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 439 DS 44.9 I87 2012 911 9780804775267 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780804775274 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0804775273 2011026603 CSt/DLC 110622 20230410103922.0 114018 eng