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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... French travelers in the Orient . Most of them were interested in the Biblical past or in the Crusades , as Henri Bordeaux has argued in his Voyageurs d'Orient . To these names we must add ( at Hassan al - Nouty's suggestion ) the names ...
... French travelers in the Orient . Most of them were interested in the Biblical past or in the Crusades , as Henri Bordeaux has argued in his Voyageurs d'Orient . To these names we must add ( at Hassan al - Nouty's suggestion ) the names ...
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... French seductive- ness without any real presence in Egyptian reality . Can it be any matter for surprise [ Cromer continues ] that the Egyptian , with his light intellectual ballast , fails to see that some fallacy often lies at the ...
... French seductive- ness without any real presence in Egyptian reality . Can it be any matter for surprise [ Cromer continues ] that the Egyptian , with his light intellectual ballast , fails to see that some fallacy often lies at the ...
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... French could not match the British either in quality of personnel or in degree of political influence . The Anglo - French competition over the Ottoman spoils was felt even on the field of battle in the Hejaz , in Syria , in Meso ...
... French could not match the British either in quality of personnel or in degree of political influence . The Anglo - French competition over the Ottoman spoils was felt even on the field of battle in the Hejaz , in Syria , in Meso ...
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