The Persistence of Orientalism Anglo-American Historians and Modern Egypt

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The Persistence of Orientalism: Anglo-American Historians and Modern Egypt (Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms) by Peter Gran
English | December 17th, 2020 | ISBN: 0815636989, 0815636970 | 232 pages | True EPUB | 2.09 MB
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 of Orientalism is the first book to take stock of this dominant paradigm, interrogating its origins and the ways in which scholarship is produced to perpetuate it.

The Persistence of Orientalism: Anglo-American Historians and Modern Egypt (Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms) by Peter Gran
English | December 17th, 2020 | ISBN: 0815636989, 0815636970 | 232 pages | True EPUB | 2.09 MB
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 of Orientalism is the first book to take stock of this dominant paradigm, interrogating its origins and the ways in which scholarship is produced to perpetuate it.[/center]