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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... European visitor was a European representation of the Orient and its contemporary fate , both of which had a privileged communal significance for the journalist and his French readers . Americans will not feel quite the same about the ...
... European visitor was a European representation of the Orient and its contemporary fate , both of which had a privileged communal significance for the journalist and his French readers . Americans will not feel quite the same about the ...
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... European culture is pre- cisely what made that culture hegemonic both in and outside Eu- rope : the idea of European identity as a superior one in comparison with all the non - European peoples and cultures . There is in addi- tion the ...
... European culture is pre- cisely what made that culture hegemonic both in and outside Eu- rope : the idea of European identity as a superior one in comparison with all the non - European peoples and cultures . There is in addi- tion the ...
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... Europe . Rather it was because native authority crumbled there and opened the land to inter - European rivalry and to outright European political control that the Indian Orient could be treated by Europe with such proprietary hauteur ...
... Europe . Rather it was because native authority crumbled there and opened the land to inter - European rivalry and to outright European political control that the Indian Orient could be treated by Europe with such proprietary hauteur ...
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