Search
Now showing items 1-3 of 3
American Ottomans: Protestant Missionaries in the Service of an Islamic Empire
(2019-08-20)
9/11 and the wars which followed have called historians of both the United States and the Middle East to seek the origins of America’s relationship with the Islamic world. The prevailing historiographic consensus presents ...
A Contact Threesome: Americans, Arabs, and Imperialists
(2015-04-08)
This paper explores how encounters with European empire shaped American missionary and travel writing about the Middle East in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I break with the way that scholars in the humanities, ...
Pilgrim's (Scientific) Progress: Natural History, Vision, and Sacred Geography in Palestine
(2015-04-08)
In this thesis, I discuss the ways that three American Protestants incorporated scientific instruments and scientific language into accounts of their pilgrimages to Palestine. I argue that incorporating science into their ...