America and the Middle East / special editor of this volume, Parker T. Hart.

Preface / Parker T. Hart -- Trade, skills, and sympathy: the first century and a half of commerce with the Near East / James A. Field, Jr. -- American educational and missionary efforts in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries / Bayard Dodge -- The great divide: World War II / Raymond A. Hare -- Middle Eastern oil since the Second World War / Thomas C. Barger -- United States' support for Iran's independence and integrity, 1945-1959 / George Lenczowski -- North Africa: calculus of policy / William H. Lewis -- The American interest in the Palestine question and the establishment of Israel / Evan M. Wilson -- The Truman doctrine: Turkey / Joseph C. Satterthwaite -- The regional pacts and the Eisenhower doctrine / Harry N. Howard -- The American concern in Cyprus / T.W. Adams -- The Persian Gulf: British withdrawal and Western security / J.C. Hurewitz -- The United States, the Arabs, and Israel: peace efforts of Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon / Don Peretz -- The Soviet Union and the United states in the Middle East / John C. Campbell -- Where we stand / Parker T. Hart -- Recent trends in ethnology: 1966-1970.