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The Crescent Obscured: The United States and the Muslim World, 1776-1815
From the beginning of the colonial period to the recent conflicts in the Middle East, encounters with the Muslim world have helped Americans define national identity and purpose. Focusing on America's encounter with the Barbary states of North Africa from 1776 to 1815, Robert Allison traces the perceptions and mis-perceptions of Islam in the American mind as the new nation...more
Paperback, 284 pages
Published
July 15th 2000
by University Of Chicago Press
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Disjointed and highly repetitive. Yet, the monograph is still a good historiographical conveyance of the unique nature of American views of Islam. Specifically, what American views of Islam reflected of American societal constructs such as slavery, the strength/weakness of the powers of government, and rhetoric in political/religious dialogues.
This was interesting, but a dry read.
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