Pioneers East: The Early American Experience in the Middle East

This article describes the career of John D. Cooper, an early American aviator and a leading test pilot for Glenn Curtiss. In the latter role he demonstrated a Curtiss flying boat in Istanbul in 1914 before a massive crowd. This aircraft was subsequently sold to Turkey and provided the primary stimulus to Ottoman naval aviation. It was also the first American aircraft sold in the Middle East.

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Islam in America: Adventures in Neo-Orientalism

Review of Middle East Studies ◽

10.1017/s2151348100000070 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 43 (1) ◽

pp. 25-35

Author(s):

Denise A. Spellberg

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Middle East ◽

American History ◽

Political Discourse ◽

Islam In America ◽

Early American History ◽

Early American

In July of 2006, I published an article in the journal Eighteenth Century Studies that I trust none of you ever read. Why should you? Eighteenth-Century Studies is not a venerable site for the study of the Middle East or Islam. However, it was the journal where I first considered a question in early American history that has since gained some currency in contemporary American political discourse. The question: “Could a Muslim be president?”

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A Surfeit of Surplus Art: The Early American Experience

Deaccessioning and Its Discontents ◽

10.7551/mitpress/11615.003.0010 ◽

2018 ◽

Keyword(s):

Early American ◽

American Experience

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Democracy and International Organization: The Experience of the League of Nations

American Political Science Review ◽

10.2307/1949072 ◽

1942 ◽

Vol 36 (6) ◽

pp. 1136-1141 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

James T. Watkins

Keyword(s):

League Of Nations ◽

International Organization ◽

The Other ◽

Political Organization ◽

World Community ◽

Early American ◽

American Experience ◽

External Relations ◽

Swiss Experience ◽

The Relationship

The relationship between the domestic political philosophy of a state and its reliability as a member of an organized world community is one of the more hotly debated issues in the present discussion of future international organization. On one side of the argument is the school of thought which holds that international organization can be safely erected only upon a basis of solidly democratic states. On the other side is the school which denies that there is any such close connection between the internal political organization of a state and its external relations. In support of their respective positions, the former school can cite the early American experience and the latter the early Swiss experience.

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