Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism

by Zachary Lockman

• ISBN13: 9780521133074
• ISBN10: 0521133076
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Zachary Lockman's informed and thoughtful history of European Orientalism and U.S. Middle East studies, the 'clash of civilizations' debate and America's involvement in the region has become a highly recommended and widely used text since its publication in 2004. The second edition of Professor Lockman's book brings his analysis up to date by considering how the study of the Middle East has evolved in the intervening years, in the context of the U.S. occupation of Iraq and the 'global war on terror'.

Table of Contents

List of maps	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface to the second edition	p. x
Maps	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
In the beginning	p. 8
Islam, the West and the rest	p. 38
Orientalism and empire	p. 66
The American century	p. 100
Turmoil in the field	p. 149
Said's Orientalism: a book and its aftermath	p. 183
After Orientalism?	p. 216
Afterword	p. 274
Notes	p. 279
Bibliography	p. 301
Index	p. 312
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