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Zusatztext "Fair-minded, thorough, and thoughtful, Field Notes is essential reading for scholars in Middle East studies who want to learn the origins and fate of their field. With a broad vision and deep research, Zachary Lockman has much to teach anyone interested in the past, present, and future of international studies in the United States." 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 Field Notes reconstructs the origins and trajectory of area studies in the United States, focusing on Middle East studies from the 1920s to the 1980s. Drawing on extensive archival research, Zachary Lockman shows how the Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Ford foundations played key roles in conceiving, funding, and launching postwar area studies, expecting them to yield a new kind of interdisciplinary knowledge that would advance the social sciences while benefiting government agencies and the American people. Lockman argues, however, that these new academic fields were not simply a product of the Cold War or an instrument of the American national security state, but had roots in shifts in the humanities and the social sciences over the interwar years, as well as in World War II sites and practices. This book explores the decision-making processes and visions of knowledge production at the foundations, the Social Science Research Council, and others charged with guiding the intellectual and institutional development of Middle East studies. Ultimately, Field Notes uncovers how area studies as an academic field was actually built-a process replete with contention, anxiety, dead ends, and consequences both unanticipated and unintended. 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 ...
