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Online-Ausg. 2012 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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9780804775267
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Is the idea of the "Middle East" simply a geopolitical construct conceived by the West to serve particular strategic and economic interests-or can we identify geographical, historical, cultural, and political patterns to indicate some sort of internal coherence to this label? While the term has achieved common usage, no one studying the region has yet addressed whether this conceptualization has real meaning-and then articulated what and where the Middle East is, or is not.This volume fills the void, offering a diverse set of voices-from political and cultural historians, to social scientists
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Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Contributors; Preface; Introduction: Is there a Middle East? Problematizing a Virtual Space; 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; 2. British and U.S. Use and Misuse of the Term "Middle East"; 3. Of Maps and Regions: Where Is the Geographer's Middle East?; 4. Why Are There No Middle Easterners in the Maghrib?; Part II: Historical Perspectives of Identities and Narratives in the Region Referred to as the Middle East
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5. When Did the Holy Land Stop Being Holy? : Surveying the Middle East as Sacred Geography6. The River's Edge: The Steppes of the Oxus and the Boundaries of the Near / Middle East and Central Asia, c. 1500- 1800; 7. An Islamicate Eurasia: Vernacular Perspectives on the Early Modern World; 8. Scorched Earth: The Problematic Environmental History That Defies the Middle East; Part III: Challenging Exceptionalism: The Contemporary Middle East in Global Perspective; 9. American Global Economic Policy and the Civic Order in the Middle East
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10. The Middle East Through the Lens of Critical Geopolitics: Globalization, Terrorism, and the Iraq WarConclusion: There Is a Middle East!; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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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.
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Is there a Middle East? Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012 ISBN 9780804775267
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804775274
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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Law
Keywords:
Naher Osten
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Islamische Staaten
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Mittelmeerraum
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Historische Geografie
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Geschichtsschreibung
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Geopolitik
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