Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture

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The central argument of Edward Said's Orientalism is that the relationship between Britain and its colonies was primarily oppositional, based on contrasts between conquest abroad and domestic order at home. Saree Makdisi directly challenges that premise in Making England Western , identifying the convergence between the British Empire's civilizing mission abroad and a parallel mission within England itself, and pointing to Romanticism as one of the...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226923142

ISBN13:9780226923147

Release Date:January 2014

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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