Chronology
Prologue: A Passage to Glory
Introduction: Recovering a Pivotal Past
Part One
EARLY AMERICA ENCOUNTERS THE MIDDLE EAST
1. A Mortal and Mortifying Threat
2. The Hostile and Ethereal Orient
3. A Crucible of American Identity
4. Illuminating and Emancipating the World
Part Two
THE MIDDLE EAST AND ANTEBELLUM AMERICA
5. Confluence and Conflict
6. Manifest Middle Eastern Destiny
7. Under American Eyes
Part Three
THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
8. Fission
9. Rebs and Yanks on the Nile
10. The Trumpet That Never Calls Retreat
11. American Onslaught
12. Resurgence
Part Four
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM
13. Empires at Dawn
14. Imperial Piety
15. Imperial Myths
16. A Region Renamed and Reordered
Part Five
AMERICA, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND THE GREAT WAR
17. Spectators of Catastrophe
18. Action or Nonaction?
19. An American Movement Is Born
20. Arise, O Arabs, and Awake!
21. The First Middle East Peace Process
22. Fantasies Revived
Part Six
OIL, WAR, AND ASCENDANCY
23. From Bibles to Drill Bits
24. An Insoluble Conflict Evolves
25. A Torch for the Middle East
26. The Middle East and the Man from Missouri
Part Seven
IN SEARCH OF PAX AMERICANA
27. Harmony and Hegemony
28. The Thirty Years’ War
Epilogue: A Profound and Visceral Gratitude
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
Index