American orientalism : the United States and the Middle East since 1945

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Label

American orientalism : the United States and the Middle East since 1945

Title remainder

the United States and the Middle East since 1945

Statement of responsibility

Douglas Little

Creator

• Little, Douglas, 1950-

Subject

• Arab-Israeli conflict
• Electronic books
• International relations
• Middle East
• Middle East -- Relations -- United States
• Nationalism
• Nationalism -- Middle East
• Arab-Israeli conflict
• Orientalism -- United States
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government | International
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations | General
• United States
• United States -- Relations -- Middle East
• Orientalism

Language

eng

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

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

327.73056

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

LC call number

DS63.2.U5

LC item number

L58 2008eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography