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The birth of orientalism /

"Modern Orientalism is not a brainchild of nineteenth-century European imperialists and colonialists, but, as Urs App demonstrates, was born in the eighteenth century after a very long gestation period defined less by economic or political motives than by religious ideology. Based on sources fr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: App, Urs, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010.
Colección:Encounters with Asia.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Voltaire's Veda
  • Ziegenbalg's and La Croze's discoveries
  • Diderot's Buddhist Brahmins
  • De Guignes's Chinese Vedas
  • Ramsay's Ur-tradition
  • Holwell's religion of paradise
  • Anquetil-Duperron's search for the true Vedas
  • Volney's revolutions.