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Availability:In StockContributor:Edward W. SaidPublish date:1979-10-12Pages:432
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780394740676ISBN-10:039474067XUPC:9780394740676Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Middle East, Asia, Islamic StudiesSize:8.08 x 5.28 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SC5D75HHVV

Orientalism

A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is--decades after its first publication--one of the most important books written about our divided world.

"Intellectual history on a high order ... and very exciting." --The New York Times

In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the...

Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780394740676ISBN-10:039474067XUPC:9780394740676Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Middle East, Asia, Islamic StudiesSize:8.08 x 5.28 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SC5D75HHVV
EDWARD W. SAID was born in 1935 in Jerusalem, raised in Jerusalem and Cairo, and educated in the United States, where he attended Princeton (B.A. 1957) and Harvard (M.A. 1960; Ph.D. 1964). In 1963, he began teaching at Columbia University, where he was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature. He died in 2003 in New York City.

He is the author of twenty-two books which have been...
Publisher: Vintage

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