LEADER 04199nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910451958203321 005 20210527031347.0 010 $a0-231-51160-4 024 7 $a10.7312/gend14011 035 $a(CKB)1000000000474453 035 $a(OCoLC)246970831 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10183547 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000212403 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11201671 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000212403 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10137415 035 $a(PQKB)10422910 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3027861 035 $a(DE-B1597)461046 035 $a(OCoLC)979573534 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231511605 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3027861 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10183547 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000474453 100 $a19960823d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNotes from the minefield$b[electronic resource] $eUnited States intervention in Lebanon and the Middle East, 1945-1958 /$fIrene L. Gendzier 205 $aWith a new preface 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc1997 215 $a1 online resource (528 p.) 225 0 $aHistory and Society of the Modern Middle East 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-231-10474-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [423]-444) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Maps and Illustrations --$tPreface --$tPreface to the 2006 Edition --$tPart I. The Setting of U.S. Policy --$t1. The Dynamic of Collaborative Intervention --$t2. U.S. Postwar Policy and the Middle East --$t3. Learning Lebanon: A Primer --$tPart II. Formative Years in the Evolution of U.S. Policy: 1944-1952 --$t4. Alternating Currents of Criticism and Conformity --$t5. The Foundations of U.S. Policy, PACLIFT: Petroleum, Aviation, Commerce, Labor, Intelligence, and the Friendship Treaty --$t6. Altered Circumstances and the Design of U.S. Political Strategy --$tPart III. The Eisenhower Administration and the Sham'un Regime: A Policy of Information and Consent --$t7. Pressure Points and Priorities --$t8. Lebanon: The "Bridgehead in the Orient" --$t9. Realities of Power in the "Rear Area" --$t10. Our Man in Beirut --$tPart IV. Intervening Before Intervention --$t11. Civil War, May 1958 --$t12. Doubt, Deliberation, and Preparation --$tPart V. The Minefield Explodes: U.S. Military Intervention --$t13. 11,000 Sorties in Search of a Target --$t14. By Mutual Consent: July-October 1958 --$tEpilogue: 1958 in Retrospect --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIrene Gendzier's critically acclaimed, wide-reaching analysis of post-World War II U.S. policy in Lebanon posits that the politics of oil and pipelines figured far more significantly in U.S. relations with Lebanon than previously believed. In 1958 the United States sent thousands of troops to shore up the Lebanese regime in the face of domestic opposition and civil war. The justification was preventing a coup in Iraq, but recently declassified documents show that the true objective was to protect America's commercial, political, and strategic interests in Beirut and the Middle East. By reevaluating U.S.-Lebanese relations within the context of America's collaborative intervention with the Lebanese ruling elite, Gendzier aptly demonstrates how oil, power, and politics drove U.S. policy and influenced the development of the state and the region. In her new preface, Gendzier discusses the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the remarkable continuity of U.S. foreign policy from 1945 to the present. 606 $aInternational relations 607 $aMiddle East$xForeign relations$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zMiddle East 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1953-1961 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aInternational relations. 676 $a327.73056 700 $aGendzier$b Irene L$0540824 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451958203321 996 $aNotes from the minefield$9868031 997 $aUNINA