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Paperback American Orient: Imagining the East from the Colonial Era Through the Twentieth Century Book

ISBN: 1558498796

ISBN13: 9781558498792

American Orient: Imagining the East from the Colonial Era Through the Twentieth Century

Surveying the American fascination with the Far East since the mid-eighteenth century, this book explains why the Orient had a fundamentally different meaning in the United States than in Europe or Great Britain. David Weir argues that unlike their European counterparts, Americans did not treat the East simply as a site of imperialist adventure; on the contrary, colonial subjugation was an experience that early Americans shared with the peoples of...

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