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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... India are the most important ; a notable case in point is the connection between Egypt and India so far as eighteenth- and nineteenth - century Britain was concerned . Similarly the French role in deciphering the Zend - Avesta , the pre ...
... India are the most important ; a notable case in point is the connection between Egypt and India so far as eighteenth- and nineteenth - century Britain was concerned . Similarly the French role in deciphering the Zend - Avesta , the pre ...
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... India itself never provided an indigenous threat to 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 ...
... India itself never provided an indigenous threat to 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 ...
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... India , Poetry , Rhetoric and Morality of Asia , Music of the Eastern Nations , Trade , Manufacture , Agriculture , and Commerce of India , " and so forth . On August 17 , 1787 , he wrote unassumingly to Lord Althorp that " it is my ...
... India , Poetry , Rhetoric and Morality of Asia , Music of the Eastern Nations , Trade , Manufacture , Agriculture , and Commerce of India , " and so forth . On August 17 , 1787 , he wrote unassumingly to Lord Althorp that " it is my ...
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