Power, Faith, and Fantasy by Oren, Michael B. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Praise ALSO BY MICHAEL B. OREN Title Page Copyright Dedication CONTENTS 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

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