The contributors to this landmark collection set the attacks on the Unites States in historical perspective. The reject the simplistic notion of an age-old "clash of civilizations" and instead examine the particular histories of American nationalism, anti-Americanism, U.S. foreign policy, and Islamic fundamentalism among other topics. With renewed attention to American's sense of national identity, they focus on the United states in relation to the rest of the world. A collection of recent and historical documents--speeches, articles, and book excerpts--supplement the essays. Taken together, the essays and sources in this volume comment on the dangers of seeing the events of September 11 as splitting the nation's history into "before" and "after." The argue eloquently that no useful understanding of the present is possible without an unobstructed view of the past.
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Introduction - Joanne Meyerowtiz 1. In the Wake of September 11: The Clash of What? - Michael H. Hunt 2. Damming Afghanistan: Modernization in a Buffer State - Nick Cullather 3. A Short History of Anti-Americanism and Terrorism: The Turkish Case - Nur Bilge Criss 4. Notes on the CIA's Secret War in Afghanistan - John Prados 5. Rescuing Women and Children - Emily S. Rosenberg 6. A Cultural History of the War without End - Melani McAlister 7. The September 11, 2001, Oral History Narrative and Memory Project: 8. A First Report - Mary Marshall Clark 9. "Anti-Americanism" in the Arab World: An Interpretation of a Brief History - Ussama Makdisi 10. History in the Fundamentalist Imagination - R. Scott Appleby 11. Conjuring with Islam, II - Bruce B. Lawrence 12. 9/11, the Great Game, and the Vision Thing: The Need for (and Elements of) a More Comprehensive Bush Doctrine - Bruce R. Kuniholm Afterword: The Anteroom of War - Marilyn Blatt Young Primary Source Documents Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations?, 1993 The King-Crane Commission Report, August 28, 1919 Sayyid Qutb, Milestones, 1960 President Jimmy Carter, State of the Union Address, January 21, 1980 Brian Whitaker, The Definition of Terrorism, May 7, 2001 President George W. Bush, Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People, September 20, 2001 Osama bin Laden, Speech on September 11 Attacks, October 7, 2001 Pew Global Attitudes Project, Opinion Leaders on America, December 19, 2001 Laura Bush, Radio Address on Women in Afghanistan, November 17, 2001 President George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, January, 29, 2002 Campaign against Sanction with Iraq Tom Masiello, On September 11th, February 2, 2002