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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... traveler , inexhaustibly curious chronicler - and Alexander - king warrior , scientific conqueror - had been in the ... travelers like Marco Polo who charted the trade routes and patterned a regulated system of commercial exchange , and ...
... traveler , inexhaustibly curious chronicler - and Alexander - king warrior , scientific conqueror - had been in the ... travelers like Marco Polo who charted the trade routes and patterned a regulated system of commercial exchange , and ...
Page 117
... travelers ' tales , and not only from great institutions like the various India companies , colonies were created and ethnocentric perspectives secured.1 For another , a more knowledgeable attitude towards the alien and exotic was ...
... travelers ' tales , and not only from great institutions like the various India companies , colonies were created and ethnocentric perspectives secured.1 For another , a more knowledgeable attitude towards the alien and exotic was ...
Page 204
... travelers from the Islamic East to Europe between 1800 and 1900 is minuscule when compared with the number in the other direction . Moreover , the Eastern travelers in the West were there to learn from and to gape at an advanced culture ...
... travelers from the Islamic East to Europe between 1800 and 1900 is minuscule when compared with the number in the other direction . Moreover , the Eastern travelers in the West were there to learn from and to gape at an advanced culture ...
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