American Orient

American Orient Imagining the East from the Colonial Era Through the Twentieth Century

Hardback (30 Aug 2011)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Surveying the American fascination with the Far East since the mid-eighteenth century, this explains why the Orient had a fundamentally different meaning in the US than in Europe or Great Britain. It argues that unlike their European counterparts, Americans did not treat the East simply as a site of imperialist adventure; on the contrary, colonial subjugation was an experience that early Americans shared with the peoples of China and India.

Book information

ISBN: 9781558498785
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 303.4827305
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 300
Weight: 624g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 19mm