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29%OFFIrene L. Gendzier - Dying to Forget: Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of U.S. Policy in the Middle East - 9780231152884 - V9780231152884
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Dying to Forget: Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of U.S. Policy in the Middle East

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Description for Dying to Forget: Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of U.S. Policy in the Middle East Hardback. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 1KBB; HBJF1; HBJK; JPS; KNBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Irene L. Gendzier presents incontrovertible evidence that oil politics played a significant role in the founding of Israel, the policy then adopted by the United States toward Palestinians, and subsequent U.S. involvement in the region. Consulting declassified U.S. government sources, as well as papers in the H.S. Truman Library, she uncovers little-known features of U.S. involvement in the region, including significant exchanges in the winter and spring of 1948 between the director of the Oil and Gas Division of the Interior Department and the representative of the Jewish Agency in the United States, months before Israel's independence and recognition by ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
722g
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231152884
SKU
V9780231152884
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About Irene L. Gendzier
Irene L. Gendzier is professor emerita in the Department of Political Science at Boston University. She is also the author of Notes from the Minefield: United States Intervention in Lebanon and the Middle East, 1945-1958 and Frantz Fanon: A Critical Study, and she is a coeditor, with Richard Falk and Robert Lifton, of Crimes of War: Iraq.

Reviews for Dying to Forget: Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of U.S. Policy in the Middle East
By tying together the strands of oil and strategic interests in Saudi Arabia with the familiar narrative about the American relationship with Zionism, this book is a major contribution to our understanding of crucial events for the future of the Middle East. Gendzier provides revelations and fresh insights throughout.
Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University Drawing from a rich variety of ... Read more

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