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1 online resource (252 pages) |
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Britain, Islam and empire : some dissenting voices -- David Urquhart and the patronage of the east -- W.S. Blunt : from oriental traveller to anti-imperialist agitator -- Lord Curzon and Britain's empire in the east -- Edward Granville Browne and the Persian 'awakening' -- Marmaduke Pickthall and the governance of Islam |
Summary |
"From Empire to Orient offers an alternative perspective on Britain's late imperial period by looking at the lives and writings of the men who defied the conventional attitudes of their day. Members of the British ruling class began travelling to the Near East in unprecedented numbers between the Greek revolt in 1830 and the fall of the Caliphate in 1924. Since the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism, this historical encounter has been viewed in the context of the West's political and cultural domination over the East. What has rarely received attention is the impact of the East upon the West in this period. Geoffrey Nash discusses those who were so profoundly affected by their travels that their cultural allegiances shifted and they came to oppose Western imperialism." "Drawing together an apparently diverse collection of characters such as the eccentric politician/diplomat David Urquhart, who fought in the Greek war of independence, or the renegade Orientalist EG Browne, who zealously supported the Persian revolution, Nash discerns a genuine discourse of dissent."--Jacket |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-245) and index |
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Urquhart, David, 1805-1877 -- Political and social views
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Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 1840-1922 -- Political and social views
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Pickthall, Marmaduke, 1875-1936 -- Political and social views
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Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 1840-1922 fast |
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Pickthall, Marmaduke, 1875-1936 fast |
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Urquhart, David, 1805-1877 fast |
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Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen 1840-1922 gnd |
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Browne, Edward Granville 1862-1926 gnd |
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Urquhart, David 1805-1877 gnd |
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Urquhart, David. swd |
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Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen. swd |
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Browne, Edward Granville. swd |
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Anti-imperialist movements -- Great Britain -- History
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British & Irish history.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
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Anti-imperialist movements
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Political and social views
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Public opinion, British
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Briten
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Reise
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Reizigers.
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Britten.
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Middle East -- Foreign public opinion, British -- History -- 19th century
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Middle East -- Foreign public opinion, British -- History -- 20th century
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Great Britain
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Middle East
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Naher Osten
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Bröthen Hoyerswerda
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781786730718 |
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1786730715 |
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9780755608027 |
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075560802X |
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9781786720719 |
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178672071X |
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