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Orient Affair
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Author : Michael William Scott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
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Orient Affair
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Author : Michael William Scott
language : en
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
Release Date : 1982
Orient Affair written by Michael William Scott and has been published by Grand Central Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with categories.
Russia S Own Orient
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Author : Vera Tolz
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-02-10
Russia S Own Orient written by Vera Tolz and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-10 with History categories.
Russia's own Orient examines how intellectuals in early twentieth-century Russia offered a new and radical critique of the ways in which Oriental cultures were understood at the time. Out of the ferment of revolution and war, a group of scholars in St. Petersburg articulated fresh ideas about the relationship between power and knowledge, and about Europe and Asia as mere political and cultural constructs. Their ideas anticipated the work of Edward Said and post-colonial scholarship by half a century. The similarities between the two groups were, in fact, genealogical. Said was indebted, via Arab intellectuals of the 1960s who studied in the Soviet Union, to the revisionist ideas of Russian Orientologists of the fin de siècle. But why did this body of Russian scholarship of the early twentieth century turn out to be so innovative? Should we agree with a popular claim of the Russian elites about their country's particular affinity with the 'Orient'? There is no single answer to this question. The early twentieth century was a period when all over Europe a fascination with things 'Oriental' engendered the questioning of many nineteenth-century assumptions and prejudices. In that sense, the revisionism of Russian Orientologists was part of a pan-European trend. And yet, Tolz also argues that a set of political, social, and cultural factors, which were specific to Russia, allowed its imperial scholars to engage in an unusual dialogue with representatives of the empire's non-European minorities. It is together that they were able to articulate a powerful long-lasting critique of modern imperialism and colonialism, and to shape ethnic politics in Russia across the divide of the 1917 revolutions.
The Orient The Liberal Movement And The Eastern Crisis Of 1839 41
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Author : P. E. Caquet
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-09-29
The Orient The Liberal Movement And The Eastern Crisis Of 1839 41 written by P. E. Caquet and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-29 with History categories.
This book focuses on the Eastern Crisis of 1839-41, closely examining the first instance of coordinated Western intervention in the Middle East during the modern era. Readers can explore topics such as how culture, domestic politics, and ideology shaped diplomacy in this landmark crisis, and the importance role played by religion - including, alongside mainstream Christianity, the Protestant Zionist movement. Highly informative and fully researched, this book suggests that the Eastern Crisis - and its associated diplomatic and military efforts - marked the first of many modern-era attempts to “improve” the region by moulding it in a Western image, providing scholars with a new perspective on this period of history.
The Appeal Of The Philippines
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Author : José Miguel Díaz Rodríguez
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-06-13
The Appeal Of The Philippines written by José Miguel Díaz Rodríguez and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-13 with Social Science categories.
This book examines the different means through which Spain has revisited its ex-colony - the Philippines - since 2000. Focusing on several major exhibitions organised in the period 1998-2017, the ‘poetics’ (narratives and meaning) and ‘politics’ (institutional power) of Spanish representations of the Philippines are critically examined. Even though Spain’s intention was to offer a fresh and updated look at the Philippines through the events organised, there was also a tendency to refer to and recreate a colonial past, posing important questions about the continuity of conceptions concerning the old Spanish Empire in the 21st Century. Díaz Rodríguez further analyses Spanish cultural policy concerned with cultural promotion outside Spain and, in particular, in the Philippines. He considers the Spanish official approach to cultural exchange in the Philippines and the consequences of particular intercultural events supported by Spanish institutions in the Philippines. This is evidenced by unique data gathered from a number of interviews conducted by the author with Spanish and Filipino artists and cultural workers. His conclusions contribute to the understanding of the transnational movement of culture, including cultural representation, arts funding, and the links between politics and the arts.
Selected Letters On Politics And Society
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Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1985-01-01
Selected Letters On Politics And Society written by Alexis de Tocqueville and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-01-01 with Literary Collections categories.
Correspondence by the eminent nineteenth-century French historian documents his polical views, his careers as a writer and politician, and his complex personality
The Dreyfus Affair
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Author : Piers Paul Read
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-02-02
The Dreyfus Affair written by Piers Paul Read and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-02 with History categories.
Intelligent, ambitious and a rising star in the French artillery, Captain Alfred Dreyfus appeared to have everything: family, money, and the prospect of a post on the General Staff. But his rapid rise had also made him enemies - many of them aristocratic officers in the army's High Command who resented him because he was middle-class, meritocratic and a Jew. In October 1894, the torn fragments of an unsigned memo containing military secrets were retrieved by a cleaning lady from the waste paper basket of Colonel Maximilien von Schwartzkoppen of the German embassy in Paris. When French intelligence pieced the document back together to uncover proof of a spy in their midst, Captain Dreyfus, on slender evidence, was charged with selling military secrets to the Germans, found guilty of treason by unanimous verdict and sentenced to life imprisonment on the notorious Devil's Island. The fight to free the wrongfully convicted Dreyfus - over twelve long years, through many trials - is a story rife with heroes and villains, courage and cowardice, dissimulation and deceit. One of the most infamous miscarriages of justice in history, the Dreyfus affair divided France, stunned the world and unleashed violent hatreds and anti-Semitic passions which offered a foretaste of what was to play out in the long, bloody twentieth century to come. Today, amid charged debates over national and religious identity across the globe, its lessons throw into sharp relief the conflicts of the present. In the hands of historian, biographer and prize-winning novelist Piers Paul Read, this masterful epic of the struggle between a minority seeking justice and a military establishment determined to save face comes dramatically alive for a new generation.
Showdown In The Orient
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Author : Thomas Arthur Bisson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-01
Showdown In The Orient written by Thomas Arthur Bisson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01 with categories.
A Library Of Freemasonry
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Author : Robert Freke Gould
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1911
A Library Of Freemasonry written by Robert Freke Gould and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1911 with categories.
Syria And Lebanon Under The French Mandate
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Author : Idir Ouahes
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-07-30
Syria And Lebanon Under The French Mandate written by Idir Ouahes and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-30 with History categories.
French rule over Syria and Lebanon was premised on a vision of a special French protectorate established through centuries of cultural activity: archaeological, educational and charitable. Initial French methods of organising and supervising cultural activity sought to embrace this vision and to implement it in the exploitation of antiquities, the management and promotion of cultural heritage, the organisation of education and the control of public opinion among the literate classes. However, an examination of the first five years of the League of Nations-assigned mandate, 1920-1925, reveals that French expectations of a protectorate were quickly dashed by widespread resistance to their cultural policies, not simply among Arabists but also among minority groups initially expected to be loyal to the French. The violence of imposing the mandate 'de facto', starting with a landing of French troops in the Lebanese and Syrian coast in 1919 - and followed by extension to the Syrian interior in 1920 - was met by consistent violent revolt. Examining the role of cultural institutions reveals less violent yet similarly consistent contestation of the French mandate. The political discourses emerging after World War I fostered expectations of European tutelages that prepared local peoples for autonomy and independence. Yet, even among the most Francophile of stakeholders, the unfolding of the first years of French rule brought forth entirely different events and methods. In this book, Idir Ouahes provides an in-depth analysis of the shifts in discourses, attitudes and activities unfolding in French and locally-organised institutions such as schools, museums and newspapers, revealing how local resistance put pressure on cultural activity in the early years of the French mandate.