Artillery of Heaven : : American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East / / Ussama Makdisi.
The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Makdisi presents a foundational American encounter with the Arab world that occurred in the nineteenth century, shortly after the arrival of the first American Prote...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The United States in the World
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 2 maps, 10 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Prelude
- 1. Mather's America
- 2. "The Grammar of Heresy": Coexistence in an Ottoman Arab World
- Part II. Intersections
- 3. The Flying of Time
- 4. The Artillery of Heaven
- 5. An Arab Puritan
- Part III. Reorientations
- 6. The Apotheosis of American Exceptionalism
- 7. The Vindication of As'ad Shidyaq
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index