Looking East examines how English encounters with the Ottoman Empire helped shape national identities and imperial ambitions. Engagingly written in an accessible style, this book demonstrates how the so-called 'conflict of civilizations' separating the Muslim East from the Christian West is a false and dangerous myth.
Looking East examines how English encounters with the Ottoman Empire helped shape national identities and imperial ambitions. Engagingly written in an...
Among the foremost feminist critics to have emerged over the last 15 years, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has challenged established approaches in literary and cultural studies. Although her readings of various authors has often rendered her work difficult terrain for those unfamiliar with post-structuralism, this collection explores Spivak's theories of critical analysis. Spanning a decade of Spivak's writing, this text brings together some of the author's readings of trends in the study of Marxism, feminism and post-structuralism. Engaging with such figures as Derrida and Foucault, Spivak's...
Among the foremost feminist critics to have emerged over the last 15 years, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has challenged established approaches in litera...
Between 1550 and 1850, how were the English people able to transform themselves from a disparate group of individuals and localities into an imperial power? This book supplements Raymond Williams' seminal work on the country and the city by applying exciting new interdisciplinary perspectives on the question. During the great age of mercantilism, new conceptions of space, time, and social identity began to emerge that are still with us today. This collection of essays by major scholars looks afresh at central issues of early modern English history.
Between 1550 and 1850, how were the English people able to transform themselves from a disparate group of individuals and localities into an imperial ...
This book explores how the Renaissance entailed a global exchange of goods, skills and ideas between East and West. In chapters ranging from Ottoman history to Venetian publishing, from portraits of St George to Arab philosophy, from cannibalism to diplomacy, the authors interrogate what all too often may seem to be settled certainties, such as the difference between East and West, the invariable conflict between Islam and Christianity, and the 'rebirth' of European civilization from roots in classical Greece and Imperial Rome.
This book explores how the Renaissance entailed a global exchange of goods, skills and ideas between East and West. In chapters ranging from Ottoman h...
