Envisioning the Arab future : modernization in U.S.-Arab relations, 1945-1967 /

Decades before 9/11 and the 'Arab Spring', US and Arab elites debated over the future of the Middle East. Through unprecedented research in Arabic and English, Envisioning the Arab Future details how Americans and Arabs, nationalists, Islamists and communists, disputed the meaning of moder...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Citino, Nathan J. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Series:	Global and international history.
Subjects:	Arab countries > Foreign relations > United States. United States > Foreign relations > Arab countries. Arab countries > Foreign relations > 20th century. United States > Foreign relations > 1945-1989. HISTORY > United States > General.

Table of Contents:

The "history of the future"
The age of speed
Imperial legacies
City of the future
Yeoman farmers
The people's court
The "new men"
Changing course
A better future.