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

Shared by:sweet Written by David Weir Format(s): PDF Language: English Publication Date: July 31, 2011 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 their European [...]