Orientalism

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Orientalism: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Alexander L. Macfie (ed.), Orientalism: A Reader (2000); Raymond Schwab, Oriental Renaissance: Europe’s Rediscovery of India and the East, 1680–1880 (1984).

Megan C. Thomas The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Megan C. Thomas
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Article History

Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Modified link of Web site: Academia - Introduction to Orientalism.	Aakanksha Gaur	Jan 07, 2025
	Add new Web site: CORE - Orientalism: the constructed, violent Muslim race.	Aakanksha Gaur	Aug 23, 2024
	Add new Web site: CORE - Criticism on Edward Saids Orientalism.	Gloria Lotha	May 31, 2024
	Add new Web site: CORE - Criticism on Edward Saids Orientalism.	Gloria Lotha	May 31, 2024
	Add new Web site: TheArtStory - Orientalism.	Gloria Lotha	Apr 05, 2024
	Add new Web site: Academia - Introduction to Orientalism.	Gloria Lotha	Feb 09, 2024
	Add new Web site: PressbooksOER - Romanticism and Orientalism.	Aakanksha Gaur	Oct 13, 2023
	Add new Web site: The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century Art.	Gloria Lotha	Aug 04, 2023
	Add new Web site: State University of New York - Art Department - Orientalism.	Aakanksha Gaur	May 25, 2023
	Add new Web site: Academia - What is Orientalism?	Emily Rodriguez	Dec 26, 2022
	Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Orientalism.	Emily Rodriguez	Sep 14, 2022
	New bibliography added.	André Munro	Nov 11, 2014
	New article added.	André Munro	Nov 11, 2014