American Crossroads
eBook - PDF

American Crossroads

  1. 426 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

American Crossroads

Book details
Table of contents
Citations

About This Book

Epic Encounters examines how popular culture has shaped the ways Americans define their "interests" in the Middle East. In this innovative book—now brought up-to-date to include 9/11 and the Iraq war—Melani McAlister argues that U.S. foreign policy, while grounded in material and military realities, is also developed in a cultural context. American understandings of the region are framed by narratives that draw on religious belief, news media accounts, and popular culture. This remarkable and pathbreaking book skillfully weaves lively and accessible readings of film, media, and music with a rigorous analysis of U.S. foreign policy, race politics, and religious history. The new chapter, titled "9/11 and After: Snapshots on the Road to Empire, " considers and brilliantly analyzes five images that have become iconic: (1) New York City firemen raising the American flag out of the rubble of the World Trade Center, (2) the televised image of Osama bin-Laden, (3) Afghani women in burqas, (4) the statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled in Baghdad, and (5) the hooded and wired prisoner in Abu Ghraib. McAlister's singular achievement is to illuminate the contexts of these five images both at the time they were taken and as they relate to current events, an accomplishment all the more remarkable since—to paraphrase her new preface—we are today struggling to look backward at something that is still rushing ahead.

Frequently asked questions

Simply head over to the account section in settings and click on “Cancel Subscription” - it’s as simple as that. After you cancel, your membership will stay active for the remainder of the time you’ve paid for. Learn more here.
At the moment all of our mobile-responsive ePub books are available to download via the app. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Learn more here.
Both plans give you full access to the library and all of Perlego’s features. The only differences are the price and subscription period: With the annual plan you’ll save around 30% compared to 12 months on the monthly plan.
We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.
Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.
Yes, you can access American Crossroads by Melani McAlister in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Middle Eastern History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2005
ISBN
9780520932012
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Middle Eastern History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Preface to the 2005 Edition
  7. Preface to the First Edition
  8. Introduction: Middle East Interests
  9. 1. "Benevolent Supremacy": The Biblical Epic at the Dawn of the American Century, 1947-1960
  10. 2. The Middle East in African American Cultural Politics, 1955-1972
  11. 3. King Tut, Commodity Nationalism, and the Politics of Oil, 1973-1979
  12. 4. The Good Fight: Israel after Vietnam, 1972-1980
  13. 5. Iran, Islam, and the Terrorist Threat, 1979-1989
  14. 6. Military Multiculturalism in the Gulf War and After, 1990-1999
  15. Conclusion: 9/11 and After: Snapshots on the Road to Empire
  16. Acknowledgments
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Filmography
  20. Index