Orientalism, Volume 10A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. |
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... Balfour was using it ; his choice was understandable and called for no comment whatever . I take up no attitude of ... Balfour justifies the necessity for British occupation of Egypt , supremacy in his mind is associated with " our ...
... Balfour was using it ; his choice was understandable and called for no comment whatever . I take up no attitude of ... Balfour justifies the necessity for British occupation of Egypt , supremacy in his mind is associated with " our ...
Page 33
... Balfour produces no evidence that Egyptians and “ the races with whom we deal " appreciate or even understand the good that is being done them by colonial occupation . It does not occur to Balfour , however , to let the Egyptian speak ...
... Balfour produces no evidence that Egyptians and “ the races with whom we deal " appreciate or even understand the good that is being done them by colonial occupation . It does not occur to Balfour , however , to let the Egyptian speak ...
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... Balfour in the Commons who had supported the project to give Cromer a retirement prize of fifty thousand pounds as a reward for what he had done in Egypt . Cromer made Egypt , said Balfour : Everything he has touched he has succeeded in ...
... Balfour in the Commons who had supported the project to give Cromer a retirement prize of fifty thousand pounds as a reward for what he had done in Egypt . Cromer made Egypt , said Balfour : Everything he has touched he has succeeded in ...
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