Eastern Figures: Orient and Empire in British Writing

Orientalism And Race: Aryanism in the Br

📁 Orientalism And Race: Aryanism in the British Empire

✍ Tony Ballantyne 📂 Library 📅 2002 🌐 English

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

Orientalism and Race: Aryanism in the Br

📁 Orientalism and Race: Aryanism in the British Empire

✍ Tony Ballantyne (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 2002 🏛 Palgrave Macmillan UK 🌐 English

<p>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 reflec

Orientalism and Race: Aryanism in the Br

📁 Orientalism and Race: Aryanism in the British Empire

✍ Tony Ballantyne (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 2002 🏛 Palgrave Macmillan UK 🌐 English

<p>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 reflec

Under Postcolonial Eyes: Figuring the "j

📁 Under Postcolonial Eyes: Figuring the "jew" in Contemporary British Writing

✍ Efraim Sicher, Linda Weinhouse 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 University of Nebraska Press 🌐 English

<DIV><p>In the Western literary tradition, the “jew” has long been a figure of ethnic exclusion and social isolation—the wanderer, the scapegoat, the alien. But it is no longer clear where a perennial outsider belongs. This provocative study of contemporary British writing points to the figure of th

Comte de Gobineau and Orientalism: Selec

📁 Comte de Gobineau and Orientalism: Selected Eastern Writings (Culture and Civilization in the Middle East)

✍ Geoffrey Nash: 📂 Library 📅 2008 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

Though known to specialists, Comte de Gobineau’s vital if idiosyncratic contribution to Orientalism has only been accessible to the English reader through secondary sources. Especially important for its portrayal of an esoteric Sufi sect like the Ahl-i Haqq, and its vivid narrative of the Babi episo

The Eastern Question in 1870s Britain: D

📁 The Eastern Question in 1870s Britain: Democracy and Diplomacy, Orientalism and Empire

✍ Leslie Rogne Schumacher 📂 Library 📅 2023 🏛 Springer Nature 🌐 English

This book examines mid-Victorian discourse on the expansion of the British Empire’s role in the Middle East. It investigates how British political leaders, journalists and the general public responded to events in the Ottoman Empire, which many, if not most, people in Britain came to see as trudging