England Re-Oriented: How Central and South Asian Travelers Imagined the West, 1750-1857

by Humberto Garcia

Book Overview

What does the love between British imperialists and their Asian male partners reveal about orientalism's social origins? To answer this question, Humberto Garcia focuses on westward-bound Central and South Asian travel writers who have long been forgotten or dismissed by scholars. This bias has obscured how Joseph Emin, Sake Dean Mahomet, Shaykh I'tesamuddin, Abu Talib Khan, Abul Hassan Khan, Yusuf Khan Kambalposh, and Lutfullah Khan found in their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108495648
• ISBN13: 9781108495646
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 345 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"