Orientalism and War

by Tarak Barkawi

Orientalism is a system of truths that imagines the world can be meaningfully understood in terms of a distinction between "West" and "East" from the Greek and Persian Wars onwards. It is also about an institutionalised community of experts who represent with authority this world of East and West, as for example in media and policy discussions of the Islamic sources of terrorism.

The papers in this volume, which include chapters by Bruce Cumings,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199327785
• ISBN13: 9780199327782
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.7"