Is there a Middle East? : the evolution of a geopolitical concept /
Is the idea of the "Middle East" simply a geopolitical construct conceived by the West to serve particular strategic and economic interests--or can we identify geographical, historical, cultural, and political patterns to indicate some sort of internal coherence to this label? While the te...
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| Език: | English |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2012], ©2012.
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Съдържание:
- Introduction:
- Is there a Middle East? : problematizing a virtual space /
- Abbas Amanat
- The Eastern question and the Ottoman Empire : the genesis of the Near and Middle East in the nineteenth century /
- Huseyin Yilmaz
- British and U.S. use and misuse of the term 'Middle East' /
- Roger Adelson
- Of maps and regions : where is the geographer's Middle East? /
- Michael E. Bonine
- Why are there no Middle Easterners in the Maghrib? /
- Ramzi Rouighi
- When did the Holy Land stop being holy? : surveying the Middle East as sacred geography /
- Daniel Martin Varisco
- The river's edge : the steppes of the Oxus and the boundaries of the Near/Middle East and Central Asia, c.1500-1800 /
- Arash Khazeni
- An Islamicate Eurasia : vernacular perspectives on the early modern world /
- Gagan D.S. Sood
- Scorched earth : the problematic environmental history that defines the Middle East /
- Diana K. Davis
- American global economic policy and the civic order in the Middle East /
- James L. Gelvin
- The Middle East through the lens of critical geopolitics : globalization, terrorism, and the Iraq War /
- Waleed Hazbun
- Conclusion:
- There is a Middle East! /
- Michael Ezekiel Gasper.