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The birth of orientalism by App, Urs, 1949-

Subjects: “…Orientalism Europe History 18th century.…”
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Russian orientalism Asia in the Russian mind from Peter the Great to the emigration / by Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: What is Russian orientalism? -- The forest and the steppe -- The Petrine dawn -- Catherinian chinoiserie -- The oriental muse -- The Kazan school -- Missionary orientology -- The rise of the St. …”
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The Orient of Europe the mythical image of India and competing images of German national identity / by Germana, Nicholas A.

Subjects: “…Orientalism Germany.…”
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American Orient : imagining the East from the colonial era through the twentieth century / by Weir, David, 1947 April 20-

Subjects: “…Orientalism United States History.…”
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Dutch scholarship in the age of empire and beyond : KITLV- the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, 1851-2011 / by Kuitenbrouwer, M.

Table of Contents: “…The KITLV under conservative and liberal administration (1851-1870) -- Imperialism, orientalism and ethics (1870-1914) -- The late-colonial rise of indology (1914-1940) -- Decolonization and internationalization (1940-1975) -- Postcolonial academic practice (1975-2001) -- Appendix I: Honorary members, presidents and secretary/directors KITLV -- Appendix II: KITLV membership figures, 1853-2000 -- Appendix III: KITLV publications, 1852-2010 -- Epilogue / Harry A. …”
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The life of J.D. Åkerblad Egyptian decipherment and Orientalism in revolutionary times / by Thomasson, Fredrik

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Why I hate Abercrombie & Fitch essays on race and sexuality / by McBride, Dwight A.

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After Jews and Arabs remaking Levantine culture / by Alcalay, Ammiel

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Chinese Sympathies : Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe / by Purdy, Daniel L.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: sympathy and orientalism -- Marco Polo's fabulous imperial connections -- Jesuit channels between Europe and Asia -- The genealogy of compassionate reading -- News of the Ming dynasty's collapse -- Vondel's tragic Chinese emperor -- Wieland's secret history of cosmopolitanism -- Adam Smith and the Chinese earthquake -- Goethe reads the Jesuits -- Weimar pairings: idealism and Buddhism, Kant and the Jesuits -- World literature and Goethe's Chinese poetry…”
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The Academic Community : A Manual For Change / by Hall, Donald E. (Donald Eugene), 1960-

Subjects: “…Enseignement universitaire Orientation professionnelle. 147539…”
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Rogue flows trans-Asian cultural traffic /

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Europe (in Theory) / by Dainotto, Roberto M. (Roberto Maria), 1962-

Table of Contents: “…-- Mme de Staël to Hegel : the end of French Europe -- Orientalism, Mediterranean style : the limits of history at the margins of Europe.…”
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Liberal cosmopolitan Lin Yutang and middling Chinese modernity / by Qian, Suoqiao

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: re-discovering Lin Yutang in the post-Mao era -- Chinese modernity: nationalism, imperialism, and the liberal cosmopolitan alternative -- Enlightenment and national salvation: the politics of a liberal nationalist -- "Little critic:" "returned" professionals and the cosmopolitan modern -- A cross-cultural aesthetics of life: translating "xingling" into "self-expression," "xianshi" into "leisure" and "humor" into "youmo" -- Oriental other: the business of translating Chinese and American cultures -- Cosmopolitan difference: critique of imperialism and debating "Chinahands" -- Conclusion: what a liberal cosmopolitan alternative means for contemporary Chinese intellectual dilemma -- Appendix. …”
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Before Boas : the genesis of ethnography and ethnology in the German Enlightenment / by Vermeulen, Han F., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Anthropology and the Orient : C. Niebuhr and the Danish-German Arabia Expedition -- 6. …”
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The Enlightenment a genealogy / by Edelstein, Dan

Table of Contents: “…-- The spirit of the moderns: from the new science to the Enlightenment -- Society, the subject of the modern story -- Quarrel in the Academy: the ancients strike back -- Humanism and Enlightenment: the classical style of the philosophes -- The philosophical spirit of the laws: politics and antiquity -- An ancient god: pagans and philosophers -- Post tenebras lux: Begriffsgeschichte or regime d'historicité? -- Ancients and the Orient: translatio imperii -- Enlightened institutions (i): the royal academies versus the Republic of Letters -- Enlightened institutions (ii): universities, censorship, and public instruction -- Worldliness, politeness, and the importance of not being too radical -- From Enlightenment to Revolution: a shared history? …”
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The Viennese caf�e and fin-de-si�ecle culture

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Charlotte Ashby -- The cafes of Vienna: space and sociability / Charlotte Ashby -- Time and space in the Cafes Griensteidl and the Cafes Central / Gilbert Carr -- 'The Jew belongs in the coffeehouse': Jews, Central Europe and modernity / Steven Beller -- Coffeehouse orientalism / Tag Gronberg -- Between 'the house of study' and the Kaffeehaus: the Central European cafes as a site for Hebrew and Yiddish modernism / Shachar Pinsker -- Michalik's cafes in Krakow: cafes and caricature as media of modernity / Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius -- The coffeehouse in Zagreb at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: similarities and differences with the Viennese coffeehouse / Ines Sabotic -- Adolf Loos's Karntner Bar: reception, reinvention, reproduction / Mary Costello -- Graphic and interior design in the Viennese coffeehouse around 1900 : experience and identity / Jeremy Aynsley -- The cliche of the Viennese cafes as an extended living-room: formal - parallels and differences / Richard Kurdiovsky -- Coffeehouses and tea parties: conversational spaces as a stimulus to creativity in Sigmund Freud's Vienna and Virginia Woolf's London / Edward Timms.…”
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Weimar thought a contested legacy /

Table of Contents: “…Steinberg -- Eastern wisdom in an era of western despair : orientalism in 1920s Central Europe / Susanne Marchand -- Weimar femininity : within and beyond the law / Tracie Matysik -- The Weimar left : theory and practice / Martin Jay -- The aftermath : reflections on the culture and ideology of national socialism / Anson Rabinbach -- Weimar thought : a chronology.…”
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Kokugaku in Meiji-period Japan the modern transformation of 'national learning' and the formation of scholarly societies / by Wachutka, Michael

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The Time of Enlightenment : Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year One / by Nelson, William Max, 1976-

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Emotion in the Tudor Court : Literature, History, and Early Modern Feeling / by Irish, Bradley J.

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