Background
DeNovo, John August was born on November 5, 1916 in Galva, Illinois, United States. Son of August and Paula (LaMantia) DeN.
( American Interests and Policies in the Middle East, 190...)
American Interests and Policies in the Middle East, 1900-1939 was first published in 1963. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Scholars concerned with the diplomatic history of the United States have largely neglected the subject of American relations with the Middle East during the four decades before World War I. With this study, Professor DeNovo fills the gap by describing and assessing the United States' cultural, economic, and diplomatic relations with Turkey, Persia, and the Arab East in that period. He traces, chronologically and topically, the activities of such American interest groups as Protestant missionaries, educators, philanthropists, archaeologists, businessmen, and technical advisers, as well as the official actions of their government. The account falls roughly into three chronological periods. The first section traces the interest groups through the pre-World War I years of political and cultural stirring in the Ottoman Empire and Persia. Special attention is given to the Chester Project for railroad development in Turkey. The second part deals with the upheavals accompanying World War I and the tasks of peacemaking from the Mudros armistice through the Lausanne settlement of 1923. The latter chapters detail the rise of the Turkish national movement, the deepening Persian and Arab nationalism, and the accommodation of American cultural and economic groups to these conditions. The author points out that before World War II began, Americans had acquired a significant interest in Middle Eastern oil and had become emotionally involved in the Arab-Zionist tension. In 1939 the United States was on the verge of a new phase in its Middle Eastern relations when that region would become more intimately linked to America's national security.
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DeNovo, John August was born on November 5, 1916 in Galva, Illinois, United States. Son of August and Paula (LaMantia) DeN.
Bachelor, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, 1938; Master of Arts, University of Minnesota, 1940; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1948; postdoctoral student, Harvard University, 1956-1957; postdoctoral student, Johns Hopkins University, 1957.
Teaching assistant, University of Minnesota, 1939-1941;
assistant in instruction, Yale University, 1947;
from instructor to professor American history, Pennsylvania State University, 1948-1964;
professor of history, University of Wisconsin, 1964-1982;
professor emeritus, University of Wisconsin, since 1982. Visiting lecturer George Washington University, summer 1949. Visiting associate professor of University Wisconsin, summer 1961.
Visiting professor Cornell Univercity, 1963-1964.
( American Interests and Policies in the Middle East, 190...)
(1972 CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS SOFTCOVER)
Lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1941-1945. Member Society Historians American Foreign Relations (member council 1969-1973), Organization American Historians, Middle East Studies Association, Phi Alpha Theta (Book prize 1964).
Married E. Jeanne Humphreys, December 22, 1948. Children: Anne, John H.