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A seventeenth-century English traveler to the Eastern Mediterranean would have faced a problem in writing about this unfamiliar place: how to describe its inhabitants in a way his countrymen would understand? In an age when a European education meant mastering the Classical literature of Greece and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Toner, J. P.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2013.
Temas:
Orientalism > Great Britain > History.
Classical literature > Influence.
Travel writing > Great Britain > History.
Historiography > Great Britain > History.
Orientalisme > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Littérature ancienne > Influence.
Voyage > Art d'écrire > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Historiographie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
02.01 history of science and culture.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Classical literature > Influence
Historiography
Orientalism
Travel
Travel writing
Oriëntalisme.
Reizen.
Bellettrie.
Geschiedschrijving.
Orient > Historiography > History.
Orient > Description and travel > Early works to 1800.
Orient > Historiography.
Orient > Historiographie.
Orient > Descriptions et voyages > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Asia > Orient
Great Britain
Oosterse wereld.
Electronic books.
Early works
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Classicizing Orientalisms
  • The Uses of Classics
  • Classics and Medieval Images of Islam
  • Traders and Travelers
  • Gibbon's Islam
  • The Roman Raj
  • Empires Ancient and Modern
  • Colonial Adventures
  • Screen Classics
  • America Roma Nova
  • Notes

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