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Culture and Imperialism
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Culture and Imperialism (1993) (edit title/settings)

by Edward W. Said (Author) (edit contributors)

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A landmark work from the intellectually auspicious author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. "Said is a brilliant . . . scholar, aesthete and political activist."--Washington... read more

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  • “Loyalty and patriotism should be based on a critical sense of what the facts are, and what, as residents of this shrinking and depleted planet, Americans owe their neighbors and the rest of mankind. Uncritical solidarity with the policy of the moment, especially when it is so unimaginably costly, cannot be allowed to rule.”

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Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.

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  1. Edward W. Said (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Country: England
Publication Date: 1993
ISBN: 0701138084
Page Count: 444

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