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Index
Chronology
Prologue: A Passage to Glory
Introduction: Recovering a Pivotal Past
Part One
E ARLY A MERICA E NCOUNTERS THE M IDDLE E AST
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
T HE M IDDLE E AST AND A NTEBELLUM A MERICA
5. Confluence and Conflict
6. Manifest Middle Eastern Destiny
7. Under American Eyes
Part Three
T HE C IVIL W AR AND R ECONSTRUCTION
8. Fission
9. Rebs and Yanks on the Nile
10. The Trumpet That Never Calls Retreat
11. American Onslaught
12. Resurgence
Part Four
T HE A GE OF I MPERIALISM
13. Empires at Dawn
14. Imperial Piety
15. Imperial Myths
16. A Region Renamed and Reordered
Part Five
A MERICA, THE M IDDLE E AST, AND THE G REAT W AR
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
O IL , W AR, AND A SCENDANCY
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
I N S EARCH OF P AX A MERICANA
27. Harmony and Hegemony
28. The Thirty Years’ War
Epilogue: A Profound and Visceral Gratitude
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
Index
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