| Contents |
Part 1. The United States and the Eastern question -- The United Stats and teh Greeks, 1821-1869 -- The United States and Bulgarian independence. 1876-1878 -- part 2. Jewish-American activism in the Islamic world -- Jewish American activism in the Ottoman Empire and Morocco, 1840-1878 -- Spreading empire and civilization in Morocco, 1878-1906 -- part 3. The United States and the "Moro problem" in the Philippines -- Understanding and classifying the United States' "Mohammedan wards" in the Philippines, 1898-1905 -- Extending American colonial governance over Filipino Muslims, 1903-1920 -- part 4. Resolving the Eastern question -- The United States and the Armenian massacres, 1894-1896 -- The United States, World War I, and the end of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1921. |
| Abstract |
"In Sacred Interests, Karine V. Walther excavates the deep history of Americans' Islamophobic fixation on how Muslims should be governed, controlled, converted, and colonized, showing how these ideas shaped American foreign relations from the early republic to the end of the Armenian Genocide in 1921. Beginning with the Barbary Wars, Walther illuminates reactions to and involvement in the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, the efforts to protect Christians and Jews from Muslim authorities in Northern Africa, colonization of the Philippines, and the Armenian Genocide. Even in instances where the U.S. government was not formally involved, American missionaries and activists played crucial roles in these events, drawing conclusions and lessons that they would pass on and apply to subsequent interventions. Americans' interest in Islam abroad became critical to a larger American narrative: diplomatic, cultural, political, and religious beliefs about Islam and Muslims hardened and became self-fulfilling as Americans continued to encounter Muslims throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries" -- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2015003752 |
| ISBN | 9781469625393 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1469625393 (cloth : alk. paper) |
