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Book Description
This "grandly illuminating study of two centuries of anti-Western ideas" (Foreign Affairs) traces the historical roots of a virulent set of stereotypes about Westerners and the West, a cluster of notions and prejudices that Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit call Occidentalism. The path does Continue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies
We (i.e. Westerners or 'westernized elites') often perceive suicide bombers to be demented or brainwashed and their backers to be ignorant, hypocritical, backward-looking or barbaric, driven by jealousy and, if not always evil incarnate, then at leas ... (read full critics)
asianreviewofbooks published on Wed, 1 Sep 2010
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- English Books
- Paperback 208 Pages
- Edition: New Ed
- ISBN-10: 1843542889
- ISBN-13: 9781843542889
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- Pub date: Aug 18, 2005
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 774 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover
- In other languages: other languages
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9781843542889 | Paperback | $14.47 | $10.71 | The Book Depository |
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Occidentalism: A Short History of Anti-Westernism by Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit 165pp, Atlantic, £14.99 This book seeks to account for anti-western attitudes. The authors use the word Occidentalism to describe the phenomenon: "The dehumanising p ... (read full critics)