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Author Nash, Geoffrey

Title From empire to orient : travellers to the Middle East, 1830-1926 / Geoffrey P. Nash
Published London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2005
New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan

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Description 1 online resource (252 pages)
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-245) and index
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Subject Urquhart, David, 1805-1877 -- Political and social views
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 1840-1922 -- Political and social views
Pickthall, Marmaduke, 1875-1936 -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 1840-1922 fast
Pickthall, Marmaduke, 1875-1936 fast
Urquhart, David, 1805-1877 fast
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen 1840-1922 gnd
Browne, Edward Granville 1862-1926 gnd
Urquhart, David 1805-1877 gnd
Urquhart, David. swd
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen. swd
Browne, Edward Granville. swd
Subject Anti-imperialist movements -- Great Britain -- History
British & Irish history.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Anti-imperialist movements
Political and social views
Public opinion, British
Briten
Reise
Reizigers.
Britten.
SUBJECT Middle East -- Foreign public opinion, British -- History -- 19th century
Middle East -- Foreign public opinion, British -- History -- 20th century
Subject Great Britain
Middle East
Naher Osten
Bröthen Hoyerswerda
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781786730718
1786730715
9780755608027
075560802X
9781786720719
178672071X