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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... later do on the ground , in the Orient . In a sense , the vindication of Orientalism was not only its intellectual or artistic successes but its later effec- tiveness , its usefulness , its authority . Surely it deserves serious atten ...
... later do on the ground , in the Orient . In a sense , the vindication of Orientalism was not only its intellectual or artistic successes but its later effec- tiveness , its usefulness , its authority . Surely it deserves serious atten ...
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... later of American ) Orientalism , a scholar whose work quite consciously demonstrated the national tendencies of an academic tradition , set inside uni- versities , governments , and research foundations . One index of this is that in ...
... later of American ) Orientalism , a scholar whose work quite consciously demonstrated the national tendencies of an academic tradition , set inside uni- versities , governments , and research foundations . One index of this is that in ...
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... later vision was not the Oriental- ist's positive work as a scholar ( for example , the kind of scholar Gibb had been in his youth when he studied the Muslim invasions of Central Asia ) but its adaptability for use in the public world ...
... later vision was not the Oriental- ist's positive work as a scholar ( for example , the kind of scholar Gibb had been in his youth when he studied the Muslim invasions of Central Asia ) but its adaptability for use in the public world ...
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