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- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- List of Figures vii
- List of Tables x
- Contributors xi
- Preface xvii
- Introduction: Is There a Middle East? Problematizing a Virtual Space 1
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PART I. THE MIDDLE EAST: DEFINED, OBLIGED, AND DENIED
- 1. The Eastern Question and the Ottoman Empire: The Genesis of the Near and Middle East in the Nineteenth Century 11
- 2. British and U.S. Use and Misuse of the Term “Middle East” 36
- 3. Of Maps and Regions: Where Is the Geographer’s Middle East? 56
- 4. Why Are There No Middle Easterners in the Maghrib? 100
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PART II. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES OF IDENTITIES AND NARRATIVES IN THE REGION REFERRED TO AS THE MIDDLE EAST
- 5. When Did the Holy Land Stop Being Holy? Surveying the Middle East as Sacred Geography 119
- 6. The River’s Edge: The Steppes of the Oxus and the Boundaries of the Near / Middle East and Central Asia, c. 1500– 1800 139
- 7. An Islamicate Eurasia: Vernacular Perspectives on the Early Modern World 152
- 8. Scorched Earth: The Problematic Environmental History That Defines the Middle East 170
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PART III. CHALLENGING EXCEPTIONALISM: THE CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EAST IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
- 9. American Global Economic Policy and the Civic Order in the Middle East 191
- 10. The Middle East Through the Lens of Critical Geopolitics: Globalization, Terrorism, and the Iraq War 207
- Conclusion: There Is a Middle East! 231
- Notes 243
- Bibliography 277
- Index 307
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- List of Figures vii
- List of Tables x
- Contributors xi
- Preface xvii
- Introduction: Is There a Middle East? Problematizing a Virtual Space 1
-
PART I. THE MIDDLE EAST: DEFINED, OBLIGED, AND DENIED
- 1. The Eastern Question and the Ottoman Empire: The Genesis of the Near and Middle East in the Nineteenth Century 11
- 2. British and U.S. Use and Misuse of the Term “Middle East” 36
- 3. Of Maps and Regions: Where Is the Geographer’s Middle East? 56
- 4. Why Are There No Middle Easterners in the Maghrib? 100
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PART II. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES OF IDENTITIES AND NARRATIVES IN THE REGION REFERRED TO AS THE MIDDLE EAST
- 5. When Did the Holy Land Stop Being Holy? Surveying the Middle East as Sacred Geography 119
- 6. The River’s Edge: The Steppes of the Oxus and the Boundaries of the Near / Middle East and Central Asia, c. 1500– 1800 139
- 7. An Islamicate Eurasia: Vernacular Perspectives on the Early Modern World 152
- 8. Scorched Earth: The Problematic Environmental History That Defines the Middle East 170
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PART III. CHALLENGING EXCEPTIONALISM: THE CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EAST IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
- 9. American Global Economic Policy and the Civic Order in the Middle East 191
- 10. The Middle East Through the Lens of Critical Geopolitics: Globalization, Terrorism, and the Iraq War 207
- Conclusion: There Is a Middle East! 231
- Notes 243
- Bibliography 277
- Index 307