Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Figures vii
4. List of Tables x
5. Contributors xi
6. Preface xvii
7. Introduction: Is There a Middle East? Problematizing a Virtual Space 1
8. PART I. THE MIDDLE EAST: DEFINED, OBLIGED, AND DENIED
9. 1. The Eastern Question and the Ottoman Empire: The Genesis of the Near and Middle East in the Nineteenth Century 11
10. 2. British and U.S. Use and Misuse of the Term “Middle East” 36
11. 3. Of Maps and Regions: Where Is the Geographer’s Middle East? 56
12. 4. Why Are There No Middle Easterners in the Maghrib? 100
13. PART II. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES OF IDENTITIES AND NARRATIVES IN THE REGION REFERRED TO AS THE MIDDLE EAST
14. 5. When Did the Holy Land Stop Being Holy? Surveying the Middle East as Sacred Geography 119
15. 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
16. 7. An Islamicate Eurasia: Vernacular Perspectives on the Early Modern World 152
17. 8. Scorched Earth: The Problematic Environmental History That Defines the Middle East 170
18. PART III. CHALLENGING EXCEPTIONALISM: THE CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EAST IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
19. 9. American Global Economic Policy and the Civic Order in the Middle East 191
20. 10. The Middle East Through the Lens of Critical Geopolitics: Globalization, Terrorism, and the Iraq War 207
21. Conclusion: There Is a Middle East! 231
22. Notes 243
23. Bibliography 277
24. Index 307