Orientalism And Empire

Author : Austin Jersild
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0773523294

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Orientalism and Empire sheds new light on the little-studied Russian empire in the Caucasus by exploring the tension between national and imperial identities on the Russian frontier. Austin Jersild contributes to the growing literature on Russian "orientalism" and the Russian encounter with Islam, and reminds us of the imperial background and its contribution to the formation of the twentieth-century ethno-territorial Soviet state. Orientalism and Empire describes the efforts of imperial integration and incorporation that emerged in the wake of the long war. Jersild discusses religion, ethnicity, archaeology, transcription of languages, customary law, and the fate of Shamil to illustrate the work of empire-builders and the emerging imperial imagination. Drawing on both Russian and Georgian materials from Tbilisi, he shows how shared cultural concerns between Russians and Georgians were especially important to the formation of the empire in the region.

Author : Zachary Lockman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521115872

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Contending Visions of the Middle East by Zachary Lockman Pdf

This second edition considers how the 'global war on terror' has changed the way the West views the Islamic world.

Author : Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones,Mary Roberts
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781405153065

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Edges of Empire by Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones,Mary Roberts Pdf

Edges of Empire is a timely reassessment of the history and legacy of Orientalist art and visual culture through its focus on the intersection between modernization, modernism and Orientalism. Covers indigenous art and agency, contemporary practices of collection and display, and a survey of key Orientalist tropes Contains original essays on new perspectives for scholars and students of art history, architecture, museum studies and cultural and postcolonial studies Highlights contested identities and new definitions of self through topics such as 19th century monuments to Empire, cultural cross-dressing, performance and display at the international exhibitions, and contemporary museological practice.

Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804153867

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Orientalism by Edward W. Said Pdf

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic. In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding. Essential, and still eye-opening, Orientalism remains one of the most important books written about our divided world.

Author : Mark Crinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136181238

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Empire Building by Mark Crinson Pdf

The colonial architecture of the nineteenth century has much to tell us of the history of colonialism and cultural exchange. Yet, these buildings can be read in many ways. Do they stand as witnesses to the rapacity and self-delusion of empire? Are they monuments to a world of lost glory and forgotten convictions? Do they reveal battles won by indigenous cultures and styles? Or do they simply represent an architectural style made absurdly incongruous in relocation? Empire Building is a study of how and why Western architecture was exported to the Middle East and how Islamic and Byzantine architectural ideas and styles impacted on the West. The book explores how far racial theory and political and religious agendas guided British architects (and how such ideas were resisted when applied), and how Eastern ideas came to influence the West, through writers such as Ruskin and buildings such as the Crystal Palace. Beautifully written and lavishly illustrated, Empire Building takes the reader on an extraordinary postcolonial journey, backwards and forwards, into the heart and to the edge of empire.

Author : David Brody
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226075341

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Visualizing American Empire by David Brody Pdf

Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-203) and index.

Author : Michael David-Fox,Peter Holquist,Alexander Martin
Publisher : Slavica Publishers
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123279031

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Orientalism and Empire in Russia by Michael David-Fox,Peter Holquist,Alexander Martin Pdf

Author : T. Ballantyne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230508071

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Orientalism and Race by T. Ballantyne Pdf

This study traces the emergence and dissemination of Aryanism within the British Empire. The idea of an Aryan race became an important feature of imperial culture in the nineteenth century, feeding into debates in Britain, Ireland, India, and the Pacific. The global reach of the Aryan idea reflected the complex networks that enabled the global reach of British Imperialism. Tony Ballantyne charts the shifting meanings of Aryanism within these 'webs' of Empire.

Author : Austin Jersild
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773569966

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Orientalism and Empire by Austin Jersild Pdf

Orientalism and Empire describes the efforts of imperial integration and incorporation that emerged in the wake of the long war. Jersild discusses religion, ethnicity, archaeology, transcription of languages, customary law, and the fate of Shamil to illustrate the work of empire-builders and the emerging imperial imagination. Drawing on both Russian and Georgian materials from Tbilisi, he shows how shared cultural concerns between Russians and Georgians were especially important to the formation of the empire in the region.

Author : Suzanne L. Marchand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0521169070

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German Orientalism in the Age of Empire by Suzanne L. Marchand Pdf

Nineteenth-century studies of the Orient changed European ideas and cultural institutions in more ways than we usually recognize. "Orientalism" certainly contributed to European empire-building, but it also helped to destroy a narrow Christian-classical canon. This carefully researched book provides the first synthetic and contextualized study of German Orientalistik, a subject of special interest because German scholars were the pace-setters in oriental studies between about 1830 and 1930, despite entering the colonial race late and exiting it early. The book suggests that we must take seriously German orientalism's origins in Renaissance philology and early modern biblical exegesis and appreciate its modern development in the context of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century debates about religion and the Bible, classical schooling, and Germanic origins. In ranging across the subdisciplines of Orientalistik, German Orientalism in the Age of Empire introduces readers to a host of iconoclastic characters and forgotten debates, seeking to demonstrate both the richness of this intriguing field and its indebtedness to the cultural world in which it evolved.

Author : M. Dodson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230288706

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Orientalism, Empire, and National Culture by M. Dodson Pdf

Orientalist research has most often been characterised as an integral element of the European will-to-power over the Asian world. This study seeks to nuance this view, and asserts that British Orientalism in India was also an inherently complex and unstable enterprise, predicated upon the cultural authority of the Sanskrit pandits.

Author : Alexander Lyon Macfie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317875338

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Orientalism by Alexander Lyon Macfie Pdf

At a crucial moment in the history of relations of East and West, Orient and Occident, Christianity and Islam, Orientalism provides a timely account of the subject and the debate. In the 1960s and 1970s a powerful assault was launched on 'orientalism', led by Edward Said. The debate ranged far beyond the traditional limits of 'dry-as-dust' orientalism, involving questions concerning the nature of identity, the nature of imperialism, Islamophobia, myth, Arabism, racialism, intercultural relations and feminism. Charting the history of the vigorous debate about the nature of orientalism, this timely account revisits the arguments and surveys the case studies inspired by that debate.

Author : François Pouillion,Jean-Claude Vatin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004282537

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After Orientalism by François Pouillion,Jean-Claude Vatin Pdf

This book offers an exciting new landscape in which to situate research on cultures and societies of the non-European world, with a road-map that leads us beyond the restrictive dichotomy of Occident/Orient.

Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307829658

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Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said Pdf

A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Western powers built empires that stretched from Australia to the West Indies, Western artists created masterpieces ranging from Mansfield Park to Heart of Darkness and Aida. Yet most cultural critics continue to see these phenomena as separate. Edward Said looks at these works alongside those of such writers as W. B. Yeats, Chinua Achebe, and Salman Rushdie to show how subject peoples produced their own vigorous cultures of opposition and resistance. Vast in scope and stunning in its erudition, Culture and Imperialism reopens the dialogue between literature and the life of its time.

Author : Andrew Wilcox
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350033801

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Orientalism and Imperialism by Andrew Wilcox Pdf

Using the work of Edward Said as a point of departure, this book dissects the concept of Orientalism through the lens of 19th century missionary impressions of Kurdistan. Wilcox argues that dominant interpretations of Said's work have a tendency to present Orientalism as an essentialist practice and instead offers an alternative manifestation in which the Oriental is perceived as the mutable product of cultural forces. The relationship between missionaries and imperialism has long been a contentious issue with many scholars highlighting their apparent ambiguity. This study reveals how Protestant missionaries can be identified as anti-imperialist in their rhetoric of ecumenical independence; yet through their preconceptions of Oriental inferiority, they contributed to a more subtle undermining of local forms of knowledge and identity. Wilcox argues that this apparent ambiguity is in part a consequence of the ways in which the term imperialism is frequently used to allude to diverse and even contradictory meanings; therefore it is not so much the missionaries who are ambiguous, as the ways in which they are judged by today's multivalent standards. The analysis also makes clear the complex discursive processes which can undermine the actions of altruistic individuals. By drawing threads from this 19th century example into the current geopolitical foreground of Middle East-West relations, this book not only sheds light upon a little-known historical case study but also illuminates larger questions of the present and future encouraging a more vigorous examination of contemporary Orientalist prejudices.