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Enduring Western Civilization: The Construction of the Concept of Western Civilization and Its "Others" Paperback - 1995
by Federici, Silvia (Editor)
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- Title Enduring Western Civilization: The Construction of the Concept of Western Civilization and Its "Others"
- Author Federici, Silvia (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Condition New
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Praeger Pub Text, Westport , Connecticut
- Date 1995
- Bookseller's Inventory # x-0275954005
- ISBN 9780275954000 / 0275954005
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.14 x 0.63 in (23.62 x 15.60 x 1.60 cm)
- Reading level 1480
- Library of Congress subjects Civilization, Western - Historiography, Civilization, Western
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95007985
- Dewey Decimal Code 909.098
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In 1978, when Edward Said published Orientalism, he argued that, far from being shaped by disinterested scholarship, Orientalism as "a mode of discourse" corroborated by "supporting institutions, vocabulary, scholarship, imagery, doctrines" was largely a self-referential system, developed in conjunction with Western imperialism for which it served important functions (Said, 1978: 2).