Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 454 g
Imagining the East from the Colonial Era Through the Twentieth Century
Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 454 g
ISBN: 978-1-55849-879-2
Verlag: University of Massachusetts Press
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.
