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

by Zachary Lockman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804799067
• ISBN13: 9780804799065
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"