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GhaneaBassiri, Kambiz. A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
A reassessment of U.S. history with reference to Muslims in the regions that would become the United States. The first two chapters, "Islam in the 'New World'" and "Islamic Beliefs and Practice in Colonial and Antebellum America," explore premodern contexts with specific regard to how Muslims were conceptualized within a European Christian project of mercantile capitalism, and how Muslims experienced the American project themselves. The work is of interest to the study of U.S. history, religion, and colonialism, among other fields.
