Notes from the Minefield : : United States Intervention in Lebanon, 1945-1958 / / Irene Gendzier.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Gendzier, Irene,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: With a new preface
• Language: English
• Series: History and Society of the Modern Middle East
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (520 p.) :; 3 maps

Irene Gendzier's critically acclaimed, wide-reaching analysis of post-World War II U.S. policy in Lebanon posits that the politics of oil and pipelines figured far more significantly in U.S. relations with Lebanon than previously believed. In 1958 the United States sent thousands of troops to s...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Maps and Illustrations
• Preface
• Preface to the 2006 Edition
• Part I. The Setting of U.S. Policy
• 1. The Dynamic of Collaborative Intervention
• 2. U.S. Postwar Policy and the Middle East
• 3. Learning Lebanon: A Primer
• Part II. Formative Years in the Evolution of U.S. Policy: 1944-1952
• 4. Alternating Currents of Criticism and Conformity
• 5. The Foundations of U.S. Policy, PACLIFT: Petroleum, Aviation, Commerce, Labor, Intelligence, and the Friendship Treaty
• 6. Altered Circumstances and the Design of U.S. Political Strategy
• Part III. The Eisenhower Administration and the Sham'un Regime: A Policy of Information and Consent
• 7. Pressure Points and Priorities
• 8. Lebanon: The "Bridgehead in the Orient"
• 9. Realities of Power in the "Rear Area"
• 10. Our Man in Beirut
• Part IV. Intervening Before Intervention
• 11. Civil War, May 1958
• 12. Doubt, Deliberation, and Preparation
• Part V. The Minefield Explodes: U.S. Military Intervention
• 13. 11,000 Sorties in Search of a Target
• 14. By Mutual Consent: July-October 1958
• Epilogue: 1958 in Retrospect
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index