02585cam a22003134a 4500 32769 32769 BJBSDDR 20230410105237.0 ta 080618s2008 nyuab b 001 0 eng 9780393330304 (pbk.) 15334103 DLC DLC spa spa aw----- n-us--- 439 DS 63.2 O66p 2008 327.73056 Oren, Michael B., 1955- Power, faith, and fantasy : America in the Middle East, 1776 to the present / Michael B. Oren ; [with a new afterword]. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2008. xxiv, 791 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [693]-741 and index. Chronology -- Prologue: A passage to glory -- Introduction: Recovering a pivotal past -- Pt. 1: 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 -- Pt. 2: The Middle East and antebellum America. Confluence and conflict ; Manifest Middle Eastern destiny ; Under American eyes -- Pt. 3: The Civil War and Reconstruction. Fission ; Rebs and Yanks on the Nile ; The trumpet that never calls retreat ; American onslaught ; Resurgence -- Pt. 4: The age of imperialism. Empires at dawn ; Imperial piety ; Imperial myths ; A region renamed and reordered -- Pt. 5: 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 -- Pt. 6: 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 -- Pt. 7: In search of Pax Americana. Harmony and hegemony ; The thirty years' war -- Epilogue: A profound and visceral gratitude. Drawing on thousands of government documents and personal letters, featuring original maps and over sixty photographs, this book reconstructs the diverse and remarkable ways in which Americans have interacted with this alluring yet often hostile land stretching from Morocco to Iran, from the Persian Gulf to the Bosporus.--From publisher description. Middle East Foreign relations United States. Medio Oriente Relaciones exteriores Estados Unidos 7033 United States Foreign relations Middle East. lcc BK JPR 0 0 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2023-04-10 0 439 DS 63.2 O66p 2008 00000098910 2018-10-23 00:00:00 1 2018-10-23 BK