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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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2010.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.