The Ancient Middle East as "White Man's Burden" Reception Studies and American Identity Formation
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Eva Miller, Early civilization and the American modern: Images of Middle Eastern origins in the United States, 1893–1939, UCL Press, London, 2024, pp. 352; 94 illus.
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