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American Orient : imagining the East from the colonial era through the twentieth century / David Weir.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weir, David, 1947 April 20- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orientalism--United States--History.
- Orientalism.
- East Asia--Foreign public opinion, American.
- East Asia.
- East Asia--Relations--United States.
- United States--Relations--East Asia.
- United States.
- United States--Intellectual life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 300 p. )
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Surveying the American fascination with the Far East since the mid-eighteenth century, this book explains why the Orient had a fundamentally different meaning in the United States than in Europe or Great Britain.
- Contents:
- The eighteenth century : from politics to theology
- The nineteenth century : from theology to scholarship
- The fin de siecle : from scholarship to aesthetics
- The twentieth century I : from aesthetics to modernism
- The twentieth century II : from modernism to mass culture
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-001-9
- OCLC:
- 794700477
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