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Informationen zum Autor Zachary Lockman is Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and of History at New York University. He is the author of Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism (2004, 2010). Klappentext Zachary Lockman is Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and of History at New York University. He is the author of Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism (2004, 2010). Zusammenfassung Field Notes uncovers how Middle East studies as an academic field was built over the course of the 20th century—a process replete with contention, anxiety, dead ends, and consequences both unanticipated and unintended. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. "We Shall Have to Understand It" 2. "The Regional Knowledge Now Required" 3. Launching a New Field 4. Princeton, the ACLS and Postwar Near Eastern Studies 5. A Committee for the Near and Middle East 6. Field-Building in Boom Times 7. "A Need for More Regular Contact" 8. "The Lower Parts of Max Weber" Epilogue
