LEADER 04308nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910811538003321 005 20230802004347.0 010 $a0-8047-8265-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804782654 035 $a(CKB)2550000000073645 035 $a(EBL)816148 035 $a(OCoLC)768081838 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000637228 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12238496 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000637228 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10678999 035 $a(PQKB)10970859 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000646360 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12240359 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000646360 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10699257 035 $a(PQKB)11202046 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC816148 035 $a(DE-B1597)564144 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804782654 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL816148 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10519780 035 $a(OCoLC)1178770318 035 $a(iGPub)CSPLUS0005991 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000073645 100 $a20110622d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aIs there a Middle East?$b[electronic resource] $ethe evolution of a geopolitical concept /$fedited by Michael E. Bonine, Abbas Amanat, and Michael Ezekiel Gasper 210 $aStanford, California $cStanford University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (319 pages.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-7526-5 311 $a0-8047-7527-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : Is there a Middle East? : problematizing a virtual space / Abbas Amanat -- The Eastern question and the Ottoman Empire : the genesis of the Near and Middle East in the nineteenth century / Huseyin Yilmaz -- British and U.S. use and misuse of the term 'Middle East' / Roger Adelson -- Of maps and regions : where is the geographer's Middle East? / Michael E. Bonine -- Why are there no Middle Easterners in the Maghrib? / Ramzi Rouighi -- When did the Holy Land stop being holy? : surveying the Middle East as sacred geography / Daniel Martin Varisco -- The river's edge : the steppes of the Oxus and the boundaries of the Near/Middle East and Central Asia, c.1500-1800 / Arash Khazeni -- An Islamicate Eurasia : vernacular perspectives on the early modern world / Gagan D.S. Sood -- Scorched earth : the problematic environmental history that defines the Middle East / Diana K. Davis -- American global economic policy and the civic order in the Middle East / James L. Gelvin -- The Middle East through the lens of critical geopolitics : globalization, terrorism, and the Iraq War / Waleed Hazbun -- Conclusion : There is a Middle East! / Michael Ezekiel Gasper. 330 $aIs the idea of the "Middle East" simply a geopolitical construct conceived by the West to serve particular strategic and economic interests?or can we identify geographical, historical, cultural, and political patterns to indicate some sort of internal coherence to this label? While the term has achieved common usage, no one studying the region has yet addressed whether this conceptualization has real meaning?and then articulated what and where the Middle East is, or is not. This volume fills the void, offering a diverse set of voices?from political and cultural historians, to social scientists, geographers, and political economists?to debate the possible manifestations and meanings of the Middle East. At a time when geopolitical forces, social currents, and environmental concerns have brought attention to the region, this volume examines the very definition and geographic and cultural boundaries of the Middle East in an unprecedented way. 606 $aGeopolitics$zMiddle East 607 $aMiddle East$xHistorical geography 607 $aMiddle East$xHistoriography 615 0$aGeopolitics 676 $a911/.56 701 $aBonine$b Michael E.$f1942-$01625638 701 $aAmanat$b Abbas$0638983 701 $aGasper$b Michael Ezekiel$f1963-$01625639 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811538003321 996 $aIs there a Middle East$93961242 997 $aUNINA