Is There a Middle East? The Evolution of a Geopolitical Concept

Table of contents

• Is There a Middle East? i
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• List of Figures vii
• List of Tables x
• Contributors xi
• Preface xvii
• Is There a Middle East? xxi
• Introduction- Is There a Middle East? - Problematizing a Virtual Space 1
• Part I- The Middle East- Defined, Obliged, and Denied 9
• 1- The Eastern Question and the Ottoman Empire - The Genesis of the near and Middle East in the Nineteenth Century 11
• 2- British and U.S. Use and Misuse of the Term "Middle East" 36
• 3- Of Maps and Regions - Where Is the Geographer’s Middle East? 56
• 4- Why Are There No Middle Easterners in the Maghrib? 100
• Part II- Historical Perspectives of Identities and Narratives in the Region Referred to as the Middle East 117
• 5- When Did the Holy Land Stop Being Holy? - Surveying the Middle East as Sacred Geography 119
• 6- The River’s Edge - The Steppes of the Oxus and the Boundaries of the near / Middle East and Central Asia, C. 1500–1800 139
• 7- An Islamicate Eurasia - Vernacular Perspectives on the Early Modern World 152
• 8- Scorched Earth - The Problematic Environmental History That Defines the Middle East 170
• Part III- Challenging Exceptionalism- The Contemporary Middle East in Global Perspective 189
• 9- American Global Economic Policy and the Civic Order in the Middle East 191
• 10- The Middle East through the Lens of Critical Geopolitics - Globalization, Terrorism, and the Iraq War 207
• Conclusion- There Is a Middle East! 231
• Notes 243
• Bibliography 277
• Index 307

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