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Sacred Interests : The United States and the Islamic World, 1821-1921 /

"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 Genoc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walther, Karine V. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.