History and September 11th
This collection of essays sets the attacks on the United States in historical perspective. It rejects the notion of an age-old 'clash of civilizations' and instead examines the histories of American nationalism, anti-Americanism, US foreign policy and Islamic fundamentalism amongst other topics
Print Book, English, ©2003
Temple University Press, Philadelphia, ©2003
Aufsatzsammlung
xi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9781592132027, 9781592132034, 1592132022, 1592132030
51818538
Introduction / Joanne Meyerowitz
In the wake of September 11: the clash of what? / Michael H. Hunt
Damming Afghanistan: modernization in a buffer state / Nick Cullather
A short history of anti-Americanism and terrorism: the Turkish case / Nur Bilge Criss
Notes on the CIA's secret war in Afghanistan / John Prados
Rescuing women and children / Emily S. Rosenberg
A cultural history of the war without end / Melani McAlister
The September 11, 2001, oral history narrative and memory project: a first report / Mary Marshall Clark
"Anti-Americanism" in the Arab world: an interpretation of a brief history / Ussama Makdisi
History in the Fundamentalist imagination / R. Scott Appleby
Conjuring with Islam, II / Bruce B. Lawrence
9/11, the great game, and the vision thing: the need for (and elements of) a more comprehensive Bush doctrine / Bruce R. Kuniholm
Afterword: The war room / Marilyn Blatt Young
APPENDIX: PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS: The clash of civilizations? (1993) / Samuel P. Huntington
The King-Crane Commission Report (August 28, 1919)
Milestones (1960) / Sayyid Qutb
State of the Unon Address (January 21, 1980) / President Jimmy Carter
The definition of terrorism (May 7, 2001) / Brian Whitaker
Address to a joint session of Congress and the American people (September 20, 2001) / President George W. Bush
Speech on September 11 Attacks (October 7, 2001) / Osama bin Laden
Opinion leaders on America (December 19, 2001) / Pew Global Attitudes Project
Radio address on women in Afghanistan (November 17, 2001) / Laura Bush
State of the Union address (January 29, 2002) / President George W. Bush
Campaign sgainst sanctions on Iraq
On September 11 (February 2, 2002) / Tom Masiello
"The [main] articles in this collection first appeared in the 'Journal of American history's' September 2002 special issue, 'History and September 11'"--Acknowledgements