Artillery of heaven:American missionaries and the failed conversion of the Middle East
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Published: |
Cornell University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Ithaca |
Publication Dates: | 2008. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
The United States in the world |
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Carrier Form: | xi, 262 p.: ill., maps, facsim. ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780801446214 (cloth : alk. paper) 080144621X (cloth : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | D871 |
CLC: |
D871.23 B979.971.2 |
Call Number: | B979.971.2/M235 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-251) and index. Mather's America -- "The grammar of heresy" : coexistence in an Ottoman Arab world -- The flying of time -- The artillery of heaven -- An Arab puritan -- The apotheosis of American exceptionalism -- The vindication of Asʿad Shidyaq. |