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Full Title

American Orientalism The United States and the Middle East since 1945 3rd Edition

Author(s)

Douglas Little

Edition

3rd Edition

ISBN

9780807877616, 9780807858981, 9781469605401, 9798890884077, 9798893133660, 9780807889046

Publisher

The University of North Carolina Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Douglas 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. He concludes that a peculiar blend of arrogance and ignorance has led American officials to overestimate their ability to shape events in the Middle East from 1945 through the present day, and that it has been a driving force behind the Iraq war. For this updated third edition, Little covers events through 2007, including a new chapter on the Bush Doctrine, demonstrating that in many important ways, George W. Bush’s Middle Eastern policies mark a sharp break with the past.