The Persistence of Orientalism: Anglo-American Historians and Modern Egypt by Peter Gran

The Persistence of Orientalism: Anglo-American Historians and Modern Egypt

Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms

Peter Gran

232 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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Why is the 1798 Napoleonic invasion of Egypt routinely accepted as a watershed moment between premodern and modern in general histories on the Middle East? Although decades of scholarship, most-notably Edward Said's Orientalism, have critiqued tra...

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