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Paperback The Persistence of Orientalism: Anglo-American Historians and Modern Egypt Book

ISBN: 0815636989

ISBN13: 9780815636984

The Persistence of Orientalism: Anglo-American Historians and Modern Egypt

(Part of the Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms Series)

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Why is the 1798 Napoleonic invasion of Egypt routinely accepted as a watershed moment between premodern and modern in general histories on the Middle East? Although decades of scholarship, most-notably Edward Said's Orientalism, have critiqued traditional binaries of developed and undeveloped in Arab studies, the narrative of 1798 symbolizing the coming of the modern west to the rescue of the static east endures. Peter Gran's The Persistence...

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