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Many of these books are also available through the Maine State Library system, either at your local library or through inter-library loan. Click here for the Minerva catalog. At "Select Library," click on =ALL MINERVA LOCATIONS= to check availability throughout the state.
- Bacevich, Andrew J. The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. 1st edn. New York, NY: Holt Paperbacks, 2009.
- Cleveland, William L. A History of the Modern Middle East. 3rd edn. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2004.
- Dodge, Toby. Inventing Iraq : the failure of nation-building and a history denied. New York : Columbia University Press, 2003.
- Gelvin, James. The modern Middle East: a history. New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Gerges, Fawaz. The far enemy: why Jihad went global. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- Haass, Richard N. Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order. New York, NY : Basic Books, 2013
- Hourani, Albert. A history of the Arab peoples. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1991.
- Keddie, Nikki. Modern Iran: Roots and Results of revolution. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003.
- Khalidi, Rashid. Resurrecting Empire : western footprints and America’s perilous path in the Middle East. Boston : Beacon Press, 2004.
- Kennedy, Hugh. When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World. New York: Perseus Books, 2006.
- Kepel, Gilles. Jihad : the trail of political Islam. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.
- Knox, D. Edward. The making of a new Eastern Question: British Palestine policy and the origins of Israel, 1917-1925. Catholic University of America Press, 1981.
- MacMillan, Margaret. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World. New York, NY: Random House, 2001. (especially Part Seven: "Setting the Middle East Alight."
- Marr, Phebe. The modern history of Iraq. 2nd ed. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2004.
- McAlister, Melani. Epic encounters : culture, media, and U.S. interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001.
- Packer, George. The assassins’ gate: America in Iraq. 1st ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
- Rosen, Nir. In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq. New York: Free Press, 2006.
- ——–. Aftermath: Following the Bloodshed of America’s Wars in the Muslim World (New York: The Nation Books, 2010).
- Shadid, Anthony. Night draws near : Iraq’s people in the shadow of America’s war. New York : Henry Holt, 2005.
- Shlaim, Avi. The iron wall : Israel and the Arab world. New York : W.W. Norton, 2000.
- Smith, Charles. Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict. 5th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004.
- Thornton, A.P. Doctrines of Imperialism. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1965
- Woodard, Colin, American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America. New York: Viking Adult, 2011