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Author Kieser, Hans-Lukas

Title Nearest East : American millennialism and mission to the Middle East / Hans-Lukas Kieser
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 213 pages)
Series Politics, history, and social change
Politics, history, and social change.
Contents The 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
Summary How missionaries and evangelical politics influenced American government policy in the Middle East
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Millennialism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
Christianity and politics -- United States -- History
Missionaries -- United States -- History
Missionaries -- Middle East -- History
Christian Zionism -- United States -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
Christian Zionism
Christianity and politics
Millennialism -- Political aspects
Missionaries
International relations
SUBJECT United States -- Relations -- Middle East
Middle East -- Relations -- United States
United States -- Relations -- Israel
Israel -- Relations -- United States
Subject Israel
Middle East
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009032146
ISBN 9781439902240
1439902240