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New to "Penguin Modern Classics" as a celebration of the 25th anniversary of its first publication. Essential exploration of colonialism and empire.
Synopsis
Surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal with the 'otherness' of eastern culture, customs and beliefs.