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• Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-462) and index.
• Containment — A bad ending — Containment and its discontents — This changes everything: the aftermath of 9/11 — The war of words — The run-up — The silence of the lambs — Into Iraq — Winning a battle — How to create an insurgency (I) — How to create an insurgency (II) — The CPA: can’t produce anything — Getting tough — The descent into abuse — The long term — The Army of the Euphrates takes stock — The Marine Corps files a dissent — The surprise — The price paid — The corrections — Turnover — Too little too late? — Betting against history.

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• Iraq War, 2003-2011
• United States — History, Military — 21st century.

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Part of the series South Asia in motion;South Asia in motion.
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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• The remains of empire — Brown over black — The war within — Truth as experiments — Gandhi’s lieutenants — Shadow-boxing on the highveld — The Bhambatha Rebellion — The Black Act — Union and its discontents — Hind swaraj — The moderate as messiah — Stalemates and new openings — Women on the march — Border crossings — The Rajah is coming — Striking at the heart of cities — The provisional agreement — The adjudication — Goodbye Mr. Gandhi — Man of peace, man of war — Between leaving and returning.

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• Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 — Political and social views.
• Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 — Relations with British.
• East Indians — South Africa — Politics and government.
• South Africa — Race relations — History — 19th century.
• South Africa — Race relations — History — 20th century.
• Great Britain — Colonies — Africa — History.
• Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948. fast (OCoLC)fst00033822
• British colonies. fast (OCoLC)fst01910374
• East Indians — Politics and government. fast (OCoLC)fst00901076
• Political and social views. fast (OCoLC)fst01353986
• Race relations. fast (OCoLC)fst01086509
• Relations with British. fast (OCoLC)fst01354239
• Africa. fast (OCoLC)fst01239509
• South Africa. fast (OCoLC)fst01204616
• Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, 1869-1948. (DE-588)118639145 gnd
• Südafrika. (DE-588)4078012-0 gnd
• 1800 – 1999 fast
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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Part of the series Key words in Jewish studies VI;Key words in Jewish studies v. 6.
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• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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• Jews — Identity.
• Jews — United States — Identity.
• Jews — United States — Politics and government — 21st century.
• Jews — United States — Social conditions — 21st century.
• Israel and the diaspora.
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• USA. (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd
• 2000 – 2099 fast

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• Part 1. The United States and the Eastern question — The United States and the Greeks, 1821-1869 — The United States and Bulgarian independence. 1876-1878 — part 2. Jewish-American activism in the Islamic world — Jewish American activism in the Ottoman Empire and Morocco, 1840-1878 — Spreading empire and civilization in Morocco, 1878-1906 — part 3. The United States and the Moro problem in the Philippines — Understanding and classifying the United States’ Mohammedan wards in the Philippines, 1898-1905 — Extending American colonial governance over Filipino Muslims, 1903-1920 — part 4. Resolving the Eastern question — The United States and the Armenian massacres, 1894-1896 — The United States, World War I, and the end of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1921.
• In Sacred Interests, Karine V. Walther excavates the deep history of Americans’ Islamophobic fixation on how Muslims should be governed, controlled, converted, and colonized, showing how these ideas shaped American foreign relations from the early republic to the end of the Armenian Genocide in 1921. Beginning with the Barbary Wars, Walther illuminates reactions to and involvement in the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, the efforts to protect Christians and Jews from Muslim authorities in Northern Africa, colonization of the Philippines, and the Armenian Genocide. Even in instances where the U.S. government was not formally involved, American missionaries and activists played crucial roles in these events, drawing conclusions and lessons that they would pass on and apply to subsequent interventions. Americans’ interest in Islam abroad became critical to a larger American narrative: diplomatic, cultural, political, and religious beliefs about Islam and Muslims hardened and became self-fulfilling as Americans continued to encounter Muslims throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries — Provided by publisher.

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• Eastern question.
• United States — Foreign relations — Islamic countries — History.
• Islamic countries — Foreign relations — United States — History.
• Diplomatic relations. fast (OCoLC)fst01907412
• Eastern question. fast (OCoLC)fst00901178
• Islamic countries. fast (OCoLC)fst01244130
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155

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Part of the series Human rights and crimes against humanity
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• Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by ninety percent–more than a million people. A century later, the Armenian Genocide remains controversial but relatively unknown, overshadowed by later slaughters and the chasm separating Turkish and Armenian versions of events. In this definitive narrative history, Ronald Suny cuts through nationalist myths, propaganda, and denial to provide an unmatched account of when, how, and why the atrocities of 1915-16 were committed. As it lost territory during the war, the Ottoman Empire was becoming a more homogenous Turkic-Muslim state, but it still contained large non-Muslim communities, including the Christian Armenians. The Young Turk leaders of the empire believed that the Armenians were internal enemies secretly allied to Russia and plotting to win an independent state. Suny shows that the great majority of Armenians were in truth loyal subjects who wanted to remain in the empire. But the Young Turks, steeped in imperial anxiety and anti-Armenian bias, became convinced that the survival of the state depended on the elimination of the Armenians. Suny is the first to explore the psychological factors as well as the international and domestic events that helped lead to genocide. Drawing on archival documents and eyewitness accounts, this is an unforgettable chronicle of a cataclysm that set a tragic pattern for a century of genocide and crimes against humanity — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Empire — Armenians — Nation — Great Powers — Revolution — Counterrevolution — War — Removal — Genocide — Orphaned Nation — Conclusion: Thinking about the Unthinkable : Genocide — Historians Look at the Armenian Genocide : A Bibliographical Discussion.

Subjects:

• Armenian massacres, 1915-1923.
• Genocide — Turkey — Psychological aspects — History — 20th century.
• Armenians — Turkey — History — 20th century.
• Turkey — Ethnic relations — History — 20th century.
• Turkey — Politics and government — 1909-1918.
• World politics — 1900-1918.

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Part of the series Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms;Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms.
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-326) and index.
• Prologue: Landscapes of Shiʻite protest — The Shiʻites and Grand Liban — Education, modernism, and anticolonial struggle — Communists in the Ulama’s homes : economic shifts, religious culture, and the state — The Shiʼite communist, the clerical movement, and the Islamists in Iraq — Shiʻite discontent : Sayyid Musa al-Sadr and the Left — Political Islam and the formation of Hizbullah — The Islamists and civil society — The Islamists : modernity and predicament of the nation-state — Conclusion.
• The complex history of Lebanese Shi’ites has traditionally been portrayed as rooted in religious and sectarian forces. The Abisaabs uncover a more nuanced account in which colonialism, the modern state, social class, and provincial politics profoundly shaped Shi’i society. The authors trace the sociopolitical, economic, and intellectual transformation of the Shi’ites of Lebanon from 1920 during the French colonial period until the late twentieth century. They shed light on the relationship of contemporary Islamic militancy with traditions of religious modernism and leftism in both Lebanon and Iraq. Analyzing the interaction between sacred and secular features of modern Shi’ite society, the authors clearly follow the group’s turn toward religious revolution and away from secular activism. This book transforms our understanding of twentieth-century Lebanese history and demonstrates how the rise of Hizbullah was conditioned by Shi’ites’ consistent marginalization and neglect by the Lebanese state.

Subjects:

• Shiites — Lebanon — Politics and government.
• Shiites — Lebanon — Social conditions.
• Islam and politics — Lebanon — History.
• Hizballah (Lebanon) — History.
• Lebanon — Politics and government.
• Communism — Lebanon — History.
• Social change — Lebanon — History.

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• Prelude: The portrait artist — pt. 1. The frontiersman. A short-lived family — Fortune’s favorite — Wilderness mission — Bloodbath — Shades of death — The soul of an army — A votary to love — Darling of a grateful country — pt. 2. The planter. The man of mode — A certain species of property — The prodigy — Providence — A world of his own — The Asiatic prince — A shock of electricity — pt. 3. The general. The glorious cause — Magnificent bluff — Land of freedom — The heights — All London afloat — Disaster — An indecisive mind — The crossing — The busy scenes of a camp — Darkness visible — Rapping a demigod over the knuckles — A dreary kind of place — The long retreat — Pests of society — The storm thickens — The traitor — Mutiny — Plundering scoundrels — The world turned upside down — Man of moderation — Closing the drama with applause — Cincinnatus — pt. 4. The statesman. American celebrity — Gentleman farmer — Devil’s bargain — The ruins of the past — A masterly hand — A house on fire — Rising sun — Mounting the seat — pt. 5. The president. The place of execution — Acting the presidency — The cares of office — Rays of genius — The traveling presidency — The state of the president — Capital matters — Southern exposure — Running into extremes — A tissue of machinations — Citizen Genet — Bring out your dead — Hercules in the field — Crowns and coronets — Mad dog — The colossus of the people — The master of farewells — Exiting the stage — pt. 6. The legend. Samson and Solomon — A mind on the stretch — Freedom — Homecoming.
• In Washington : a Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation, dashing forever the stereotype of a stolid, unemotional man, and revealing an astute and surprising portrait of a canny political genius who knew how to inspire people.
• Pulitzer Prize Award for Autobiography and Biography, 2011

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• Washington, George, 1732-1799.
• Presidents — United States — Biography.
• Generals — United States — Biography.
• United States — History — 1783-1815.

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Iran’s social, economic, political, and cultural conditions at the dawn of the 19th century — Encounter with the West, efforts at reform and modernization, and their consequences — The left in Iran : origins and evolution — Islamic opposition to the Shah : groups, individuals, and thinking — The revolution triumphs, the coalition fractures, and power struggles begin — Factions, discourses and politics in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1980-1997 — The left’s revenge, the Khatami presidency, and the reformist discourse — Khatami’s second term, 2001-2005 : continued domestic bickering and new international challenges — Ahmadinejad presidency’s first term, 2005-2009 : restoring revolutionary values — Presidential elections of 2009 and Ahmadinejad’s second term — June 2013 presidential elections : outcome, significance, and potential consequences.

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• Iran — Politics and government — 20th century.
• Iran — Politics and government — 1997-
• Islam and politics — Iran.
• Islam and state — Iran.
• Right and left (Political science) — Iran.
• Political culture — Iran.
• National characteristics, Iranian.
• Islam and politics. fast (OCoLC)fst00979879
• Islam and state. fast (OCoLC)fst00979890
• National characteristics, Iranian. fast (OCoLC)fst01033447
• Political culture. fast (OCoLC)fst01069263
• Politics and government fast (OCoLC)fst01919741
• Right and left (Political science) fast (OCoLC)fst01097849
• Iran. fast (OCoLC)fst01204889
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• This third edition of Ira M. Lapidus’s classic A History of Islamic Societies has been substantially revised to incorporate the insights of new scholarship and updated to include historical developments in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Lapidus’s history explores the beginnings and transformations of Islamic civilizations in the Middle East and details Islam’s worldwide diffusion to Africa Spain Turkey and the Balkans Central, South and Southeast Asia and North America, situating Islamic societies within their global, political, and economic contexts. It accounts for the impact of European imperialism on Islamic societies and traces the development of the modern national state system and the simultaneous Islamic revival from the early nineteenth century to the present. This book is essential for readers seeking to understand Muslim peoples — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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• Islamic countries — History.
• Islam — History.

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-444) and index.
• Foreword / John L. Esposito — General introduction — Part I : Saracens and Ifranj : rivalries, emulation, and convergences / John Tolan. The geographers’ world : from Arabia Felix to the Balad al-Ifranj (land of the Franks) Conquest and its justifications : jihad, crusade, Reconquista The social inferiority of religious minorities : Dhimmis and Mudejars In search of Egyptian gold : traders in the Mediterranean On the shoulders of giants : transmission and exchange of knowledge — Part II : The great Turk and Europe / Gilles Veinstein. Introduction to Part II : continuity and change in geopolitics The Ottoman conquest in Europe Ottoman Europe : an ancient fracture Antagonistic figures The Islamic-Christian border in Europe Breaches in the Conflict — Part III : Europe and the Muslim world in the contemporary period / Henry Laurens. The eighteenth century as turning point Civilization or conquest? The age of reform The age of empire The first blows to European domination The Great War and the beginning of emancipation Contemporary issues.
• Europe and the Islamic World sheds much-needed light on the shared roots of Islamic and Western cultures and on the richness of their inextricably intertwined histories, refuting once and for all the misguided notion of a clash of civilizations between the Muslim world and Europe. In this landmark book, three eminent historians bring to life the complex and tumultuous relations between Genoans and Tunisians, Alexandrians and the people of Constantinople, Catalans and Maghrebis–the myriad groups and individuals whose stories reflect the common cultural, intellectual, and religious heritage of Europe and Islam. Since the seventh century, when the armies of Constantinople and Medina fought for control of Syria and Palestine, there has been ongoing contact between the Muslim world and the West. This sweeping history vividly recounts the wars and the crusades, the alliances and diplomacy, commerce and the slave trade, technology transfers, and the intellectual and artistic exchanges. Here readers are given an unparalleled introduction to key periods and events, including the Muslim conquests, the collapse of the Byzantine Empire, the commercial revolution of the medieval Mediterranean, the intellectual and cultural achievements of Muslim Spain, the crusades and Spanish reconquest, the rise of the Ottomans and their conquest of a third of Europe, European colonization and decolonization, and the challenges and promise of this entwined legacy today. As provocative as it is groundbreaking, this book describes this shared history in all its richness and diversity, revealing how ongoing encounters between Europe and Islam have profoundly shaped both. –Publisher description.

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• Europe — Relations — Middle East.
• Middle East — Relations — Europe.
• Europe — Relations — Islamic countries.
• Islamic countries — Relations — Europe.
• Europe — Civilization — Islamic influences.
• Islamic civilization — Western influences.

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