Early Civilization and the American Modern: Images of Middle Eastern Origins in the United States, 1893â "1939 (Modern Americas)

Miller, Eva

ISBN 10: 1800087217 / ISBN 13: 9781800087217

Published by UCL Press, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Early Civilization and the American Modern: Images of Middle Eastern Origins in the United States, 1893â "1939 (Modern Americas)
• Publisher: UCL Press
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1800087217
• ISBN 13: 9781800087217
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Articulates the significance of early Middle Eastern civilization in the construction of American modernity.

Early Civilization and the American Modern explores how the teleological narrative that civilization and its benefits—science, law, writing, art, and architecture—began in Egypt and Mesopotamia addressed anxieties about the United States’ unique role in the long march of progress. To tackle this phenomenon, author Eva Miller highlights central collaborators of the creation of progressive visual narratives in key institutions, world’s fairs, and popular media such as Orientalist James Henry Breasted, astronomer George Ellery Hale, architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, and decorative artists Lee Lawrie and Hildreth Meière.

About the Author

Eva Miller is a British Academy postdoctoral fellow in the history department at UCL.