Translated from the French.;It was an American who first described the Barbary l
ands of the Mediterranean basin as the Middle East - a region by which America,
ever since its own revolutionary foundation, has always measured its power. Accl
aimed historian Jean-Pierre Filiu and award-winning artist David B. tell the sto
ry of the blockades, broadsides, and betrayals of this foreign affair - a wary c
o-dependency that, from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the Eisenhower era, and from go
ld to oil, has continued to define our modern world.;Translated from the French.
