The Sultan of Muscat in Vermont: Reimagining the Middle East in World History

Contenu

Titre

The Sultan of Muscat in Vermont: Reimagining the Middle East in World History

Auteur

Roberts, Nicholas P.

Date

2025

Dans

Middle East Critique

Résumé

While historians have never written about it, in May 1846 the Sultan of Muscat arrived in Weathersfield, Vermont for his first voyage to the United States. This article uses the Sultan’s arrival in Vermont as a platform for augmenting a growing chorus of historians challenging the geographic and disciplinary boundaries that continue to define Middle East Studies. Using archival sources from the US, UK, Zanzibar, and a range of secondary sources, this article addresses a complex centuries-long process of Omani expansion and expropriation that culminated in Zanzibar in the nineteenth century and the height of the Omani Empire as an active participant in shaping the modern world economy. The writing of world history and of Middle East history generally continues to commence from the presupposition of an inevitably ascendant Western-created and led modern world. This article challenges the latter assumption.

Sujet

Relations -- Oman -- Etats-Unis

Langue

eng

volume

34

numéro

1

pages

1-16

doi

10.1080/19436149.2025.2450993

issn

1943-6149

Titre abrégé

The Sultan of Muscat in Vermont

uri

https://doi.org/10.1080/19436149.2025.2450993