American Orient: Imagining the East from the Colonial Era Through the Twentieth Century by David Weir

American Orient: Imagining the East from the Colonial Era Through the Twentieth Century

David Weir

300 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history literary
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Surveying the American fascination with the Far East since the mid-eighteenth century, this book explains why the Orient had a fundamentally different meaning in the United States than in Europe or Great Britain. David Weir argues that unlike thei...

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