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The birth of orientalism
- Title
- The birth of orientalism / Urs App.
- Author
- App, Urs, 1949-
- Publication
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 10-6871 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xviii, 550 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Encounters with Asia
- Uniform Title
- Encounters with Asia.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Voltaire's Veda -- Ziegenbalg's and La Croze's discoveries -- Diderot's Buddhist Brahmins -- De Guignes's Chinese Vedas -- Ramsay's Ur-tradition -- Holwell's religion of paradise -- Anquetil-Duperron's search for the true Vedas -- Volney's revolutions.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-6871
- ISBN
- 9780812242614 (acid-free paper)
- 0812242610 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2010004556
- OCLC
- YBP 2010004556
- Author
- App, Urs, 1949-
- Title
- The birth of orientalism / Urs App.
- Imprint
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.
- Series
- Encounters with AsiaEncounters with Asia.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-6871