Oren, Michael B., 1955-
New York London : W. W. Norton, 2008.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Prologue: A Passage to Glory — Introduction: Recovering a Pivotal Past — Part 1. Early America Encounters the Middle East — 1. Mortal and Mortifying Threat — 2. Hostile and Ethereal Orient — 3. Crucible of American Identity — 4. Illuminating and Emancipating the World — Part 2. Middle East and Antebellum America — 5. Confluence and Conflict — 6. Manifest Middle Eastern Destiny — 7. Under American Eyes — Part 3. Civil War and Reconstruction — 8. Fission — 9. Rebs and Yanks on the Nile — 10. Trumpet That Never Calls Retreat — 11. American Onslaught — 12. Resurgence — Part 4. Age of Imperialism — 13. Empires at Dawn — 14. Imperial Piety — 15. Imperial Myths — 16. Region Renamed and Reordered — Part 5. America, the Middle East, and the Great War — 17. Spectators of Catastrophe — 18. Action or Nonaction? — 19. American Movement Is Born — 20. Arise, O Arabs, and Awake! — 21. First Middle East Peace Process — 22. Fantasies Revived — Part 6. Oil, War, and Ascendancy — 23. From Bibles to Drill Bits — 24. Insoluble Conflict Evolves — 25. Torch for the Middle East — 26. Middle East and the Man from Missouri — Part 7. In Search of Pax Americana — 27. Harmony and Hegemony — 28. Thirty Years’ War — Epilogue: A Profound and Visceral Gratitude.
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