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Artillery of Heaven - American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University. He is the author of The Culture of Sectarianism and coeditor of Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa . Klappentext Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University. He is the author of The Culture of Sectarianism and coeditor of Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa. Zusammenfassung 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...

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Authors Ussama Makdisi, Makdisi Ussama
Publisher Cornell University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 15.08.2009
 
EAN 9780801475757
ISBN 978-0-8014-7575-7
No. of pages 277
Series United States in the World
United States in the World
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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