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Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States

Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States

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IslamGeneral EducationGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0804799067
ISBN13: 9780804799065
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Mar 30 2016
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Field Notes reconstructs the origins and trajectory of area studies in the United States, focusing on Middle East studies from the 1920s to the 1980s. Drawing on extensive archival research, Zachary Lockman shows how the Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Ford foundations played key roles in conceiving, funding, and launching postwar area studies, expecting them to yield a new kind of interdisciplinary knowledge that would advance the social sciences while benefiting government agencies and the American people. Lockman argues, however, that these new academic fields were not simply a product of the Cold War or an instrument of the American national security state, but had roots in shifts in the humanities and the social sciences over the interwar years, as well as in World War II sites and practices.

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