Is there a Middle East? the evolution of a geopolitical concept /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Bonine, Michael E., 1942-, Amanat, Abbas, Gasper, Michael Ezekiel, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.