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....
| Основен автор: | Little, Douglas, 1950- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
℗♭2008.
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| Издание: | 3rd ed. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=226124 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
American orientalism. |
| Резюме: |
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. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xviii, 441 pages) : map |
| Формат: |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-419) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780807877616 0807877611 9781469605401 1469605406 |