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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Page 89
... Lesseps advertises . Genealogically , Ferdinand's start was auspicious . Mathieu de Lesseps , his father , had come to Egypt with Napoleon and remained there ( as " unofficial French representative , " Marlowe says82 ) for four years ...
... Lesseps advertises . Genealogically , Ferdinand's start was auspicious . Mathieu de Lesseps , his father , had come to Egypt with Napoleon and remained there ( as " unofficial French representative , " Marlowe says82 ) for four years ...
Page 95
... Lesseps to take two among the many projectors who hatched plans for the Orient - is the one that sees them carrying on in the dimensionless silence of the Orient mainly because the discourse of Orientalism , over and above the Orient's ...
... Lesseps to take two among the many projectors who hatched plans for the Orient - is the one that sees them carrying on in the dimensionless silence of the Orient mainly because the discourse of Orientalism , over and above the Orient's ...
Page 334
... Lesseps , Lettres , journal et documents pour servir à l'histoire du Canal de Suez ( Paris : Didier , 1881 ) , 5 : 310. For an apt char- acterization of de Lesseps and Cecil Rhodes as mystics , see Baudet , Paradise on Earth , p . 68 ...
... Lesseps , Lettres , journal et documents pour servir à l'histoire du Canal de Suez ( Paris : Didier , 1881 ) , 5 : 310. For an apt char- acterization of de Lesseps and Cecil Rhodes as mystics , see Baudet , Paradise on Earth , p . 68 ...
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