The Birth of Orientalism / / Urs App.
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 from a do...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Encounters with Asia
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (568 p.) :; 20 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Voltaire's Veda
- Chapter 2. Ziegenbalg's and La Croze's Discoveries
- Chapter 3. Diderot's Buddhist Brahmins
- Chapter 4. De Guignes's Chinese Vedas
- Chapter 5. Ramsay's Ur-Tradition
- Chapter 6. Holwell's Religion of Paradise
- Chapter 7. Anquetil-Duperron's Search for the True Vedas
- Chapter 8. Volney's Revolutions
- Synoptic List of Protagonists
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index