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MODERN HISTORY AND POLITICS-Artillery of Fire: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East

MODERN HISTORY AND POLITICS Artillery of Fire: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East, by Ussama Makdisi. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. 262 pages. Illust. $35.

Reviewed by Heather J. Sharkey

Lucid and elegantly written, Ussama Makdisi's Artillery of Heaven accomplishes two big things. First, while examining 19thcentury American missionary encounters in the Arab Ottoman territories, it presents a model for a new kind of transnational history that sheds light on American engagement with the world. Second, and at a time when much of the Arab past has been "effectively demarcated as a forbidden no-man's land" because of fear of what "divisive ...

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