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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... century , Anquetil- Duperron and Sir William Jones were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit . By the middle of the 0-2 nineteenth century Orientalism was as vast a treasure - house of learning as ...
... century , Anquetil- Duperron and Sir William Jones were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit . By the middle of the 0-2 nineteenth century Orientalism was as vast a treasure - house of learning as ...
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... nineteenth century among Darwinian anthropologists and phrenologists , was it made the basis of a scientific subject matter as it was in comparative linguistics or philology . Language and race seemed inextricably tied , and the " good ...
... nineteenth century among Darwinian anthropologists and phrenologists , was it made the basis of a scientific subject matter as it was in comparative linguistics or philology . Language and race seemed inextricably tied , and the " good ...
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... century to the sixteenth , Islam dominated both East and West . Then the center of power shifted westwards , and now in the late twentieth century it seems to be directing itself back towards the East again . My account of nineteenth - ...
... century to the sixteenth , Islam dominated both East and West . Then the center of power shifted westwards , and now in the late twentieth century it seems to be directing itself back towards the East again . My account of nineteenth - ...
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