Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture

by Saree Makdisi

Book Overview

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"