Turk in America

Justin A. McCarthy is professor of history at the University of Louisville, Kentucky.

"This is a fascinating book! It is thoroughly researched and the footnotes reflect a comprehensive treatment of the subject. The Turk in America corrects a markedly one-sided historiography and breaks new ground in its exposition of how the Ottoman Turks came to be vilified in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."—Edward J. Erickson, Command and Staff College, Marine Corps University"The author is to be congratulated for his meticulous and detailed research. He has done a first class job of writing a history of ethno-religious propaganda as it was directed against 'the Turks' from the nineteenth century onwards, with special focus on the contribution of missionaries to anti-Ottoman propaganda in the nineteenth century, the dissemination of British propaganda in the United States during the First World War, and 'Politics and the Missionary Establishment,' as the author entitles one of his chapters. The research is comprehensive, the sources detailed, and the writing strong and direct."—Jeremy Salt, Bilket University, Ankara, Turkey

• List of MapsAcknowledgments1. The Missionaries Depart2. Turks and Muslims in Early America3. The Greek Rebellion4. The Religion of the Turks5. Education6. The Bulgarian Horrors7. Americans and Armenians8. World War I: The Capstone of American Prejudice9. The Age of Near East Relief10. The Propaganda Bureau: The British and the Turks11. Politics and the Missionary Establishment12. The Last Act for the Missionary Establishment13. Epilogue: The Myth of the Terrible Turk Lives OnNotesBibliographyIndex