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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... imaginative pressures , what institutions and traditions , what cultural forces produce such similarity in the descriptions of the Orient to be found in Cromer , Balfour , and our contemporary statesmen ? II Imaginative Geography and ...
... imaginative pressures , what institutions and traditions , what cultural forces produce such similarity in the descriptions of the Orient to be found in Cromer , Balfour , and our contemporary statesmen ? II Imaginative Geography and ...
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... imaginative , quasi - fictional quality one senses lurking in a time very different and distant from our own . For there is no doubt that imaginative geography and history help the mind to intensify its own sense of itself by dramatiz ...
... imaginative , quasi - fictional quality one senses lurking in a time very different and distant from our own . For there is no doubt that imaginative geography and history help the mind to intensify its own sense of itself by dramatiz ...
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... imaginative and geographic division made between East and West , and lived through during many centuries . In Chapter Two my focus narrowed a good deal . I was interested in the earliest phases of what I call modern Orientalism , which ...
... imaginative and geographic division made between East and West , and lived through during many centuries . In Chapter Two my focus narrowed a good deal . I was interested in the earliest phases of what I call modern Orientalism , which ...
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