Book ID: CBB001550593

Reading Arabia: British Orientalism in the Age of Mass Publication, 1880--1930 (2014)

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Long, Andrew C. (Author)


Syracuse University Press


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: 288 pp.; ill.
Language: English

In "Reading Arabia," Long explores the change in the tradition of British Orientalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He examines the role of mass print culture, including travel literature, newspapers, and silent films, in the construction of the British public's perception of "Arabia" (a region that extended from Morocco through Syria).

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Tapti Roy
Singh, Charu
García Muñiz, Humberto
Topham, Johnathan R.
Taylor, Michael A.
Stouraiti, Anastasia
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History of Science
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