American Orientalism : The United States and the Middle East since 1945 /

Little explores the stormy American relationship with the Middle East from World War II through the war in Iraq, focusing particularly on the complex and often inconsistent attitudes and interests that helped put the United States on a collision course with radical Islam early in the new millennium....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Little, Douglas, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
Edition:3rd ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
International relations.
Orientalism.
Nationalism.
Arab-Israeli conflict.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
Conflit israelo-arabe.
Orientalisme > États-Unis.
Nationalism > Middle East.
Orientalism > United States.
United States.
Middle East.
Middle East > Relations > United States.
United States > Relations > Middle East.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Little explores the stormy American relationship with the Middle East from World War II through the war in Iraq, focusing particularly on the complex and often inconsistent attitudes and interests that helped put the United States on a collision course with radical Islam early in the new millennium. After documenting the persistence of "orientalist" stereotypes in American popular culture, Little examines oil, Israel, and other aspects of U.S. policy. For this updated third edition, Little covers events through 2007, including a new chapter on the Bush Doctrine, demonstrating that in.
Physical Description:1 online resource (464 pages): map
ISBN:9781469605401

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