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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... sense of being sup- ported at home by a government that endorses what they do . Yet directly the native populations ... sense of order which is the very basis of their civilisation , just as our officers lose all that sense of power and ...
... sense of being sup- ported at home by a government that endorses what they do . Yet directly the native populations ... sense of order which is the very basis of their civilisation , just as our officers lose all that sense of power and ...
Page 54
... sense of their identities negatively . A fifth - century Athenian was very likely to feel himself to be nonbarbarian as much as he positively felt himself to be Athenian . The geographic boundaries accompany the social , ethnic , and ...
... sense of their identities negatively . A fifth - century Athenian was very likely to feel himself to be nonbarbarian as much as he positively felt himself to be Athenian . The geographic boundaries accompany the social , ethnic , and ...
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... 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- ing the distance and difference between what ...
... 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- ing the distance and difference between what ...
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