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200 10$aNearest East $eAmerican millennialism and mission to the Middle East /$fHans-Lukas Kieser
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aPhiladelphia $cTemple University Press$d2010
215   $a1 online resource (225 p.)
225 1 $aPolitics, history, and social change
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aThe United States and the Near East, circa 1800 -- A quest for "Zion" and peace on Earth : mission to the Bible lands -- Dream and trauma : missionary America and young Turkey, 1908-1923 -- Oil, Palestine-Israel, and empire of the good -- American steps and shortcuts to "Zion" after 1967.
330   $aLong before oil interests shaped American interaction with the Middle East, the U.S. had a strong influence on the late Ottoman and post-Ottoman region. Covering the period from approximately 1800 to the 1970's, Hans-Lukas Kieser's compelling Nearest East tells the story of this intimate, identity-building relationship between the U.S. and the Near East.  Kieser chronicles how American missionaries worked to implement their belief in Biblical millennialism, enlightened modernity, and a modern Zion-Israel. Millennialism was part of an American identity that constitut
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