Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from Peter the Great to the Emigration - Rilegato

Van Der Oye, David Shimmelpenninck

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ISBN 10: 0300110634 ISBN 13: 9780300110630

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2010

Riassunto

The West has been accused of seeing the East in a hostile and deprecatory light, as the legacy of nineteenth-century European imperialism. In this highly original and controversial book, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye examines Russian thinking about the Orient before the Revolution of 1917. Exploring the writings, poetry, and art of representative individuals including Catherine the Great, Alexander Pushkin, Alexander Borodin, and leading orientologists, Schimmelpenninck argues that the Russian Empire’s bi-continental geography, its ambivalent relationship with the rest of Europe, and the complicated nature of its encounter with Asia have all resulted in a variegated and often surprisingly sympathetic understanding of the East among its people.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye is professor of Russian history at Brock University in Ontario. He is the author of Toward the Rising Sun: Ideologies of Empire and the Path to War with Japan.

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Book by Schimmelpenninck van der Oye David

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0300110634
• ISBN 13: 9780300110630
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 298