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Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East

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Ussama Makdisi


Cornell University Press
Cloth 9780801446214
$35
January 2008

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"This new book is a remarkable tour de force. It establishes Ussama Makdisi’s place as one of the premier historians of the modern Arab world, of the Arab-American encounter, and of Lebanon. It represents the best kind of intercultural history, weaving seamlessly a narrative of missionary actions against their American background, and of Lebanese reactions in their Ottoman context. —Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, Middle East Institute, Columbia University

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