OrientalismA groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—three decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. |
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... Balfour in his notions about Oriental civilization and by Cromer in his management of everyday business in Egypt. The most important thing about the theory during the first decade of the twentieth century was that it worked, and worked ...
... Balfour inherited from a century of modern Western Orientalism: knowledge about and knowledge of Orientals, their race, character, culture, history, traditions, society, and possibilities. This knowledge was effective: Cromer believed ...
... Balfour refer everywhere in their writing and in their public policy. To say simply that Orientalism was a rationalization of colonial rule is to ignore the extent to which colonial rule was justified in advance by Orientalism, rather ...
... Balfour acknowledged the “greatness” of Oriental civilizations. But the essential relationship, on political, cultural, and even religious grounds, was seen—in the West, which is what concerns us here— to be one between a strong and a ...
... Balfour and Cromer could say what they said, in the way they did, because a still earlier tradition of Orientalism than the nineteenth-century one provided them with a vocabulary, imagery, rhetoric, and figures with which to say it. Yet ...
Contents
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Projects | 73 |
Crisis | 92 |
Redrawn Frontiers Redefined Issues Secularized | 113 |
Rational | 123 |
Pilgrims and Pilgrimages British and French | 166 |
Latent and Manifest Orientalism | 201 |
Orientalism Worldliness | 226 |
Modern AngloFrench Orientalism in Fullest Flower | 255 |
The Latest Phase | 284 |
Afterword | 329 |