Description
Provides a genealogy for the critique of orientalism by examining the divergence of the British and French colonial experiences
About the Author
Edmund Burke III is a professor of history and the director of the Center for World History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the editor (with David N. Yaghoubian) of Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East, second edition. David Prochaska is an associate professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Making Algeria French: Colonialism in Bone, 1870-1920. Contributors include: Edmund Burke III, Zeynep Celik, Alan Christy, Bernard S. Cohn, Fanny Colonna, Nicholas Dirks, Arif Dirlik, Leila Kinney, David Ludden, David Prochaska, Jenny Sharpe, Ella Shohat, and Julia Clancy-Smith.
Reviews
"This collection offers a heretofore unavailable genealogy of the global through the prism of orientalism. The result is both a primer for students, and a provocation to History-as a discipline and as an instrument of imperial power."-Antoinette Burton, author of Burdens of History and Dwelling in the Archive
"A terrific group of essays. And the introduction is magisterial."-James Clifford, author The Predicament of Culture and Routes
"This book responds critically to the influence of Said's Orientalism, assessing its achievements and limitations. It makes a valuable contribution to the debate on orientalism."-Talal Asad, author of Genealogies of Religion and Formations of the Secular
"These essays develop a remarkable perspective on Edward Said's Orientalism, placing it in a long historical context of critiques of colonial representations, and deepening our understanding of the very meaning of modernity."-Joan W. Scott, author of The Politics of the Veil
"Genealogies of Orientalism remains an interesting and extremely valuable addition to the growing oeuvre of collections devoted to orientalism and its critical interrogation."-Michael S. Dodson, Journal of World History
Book Information
ISBN 9780803213425
Author Edmund Burke III
Format Paperback
Page Count 460
Imprint University of Nebraska Press
Publisher University of Nebraska Press
Weight(grams) 612g