Author: Karl MayPublisher: Nemsi Books
ISBN: 0971816417
Category : Africa, North
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Oriental Odyssey: Devil worshippers
Author: Karl MayPublisher: Nemsi Books
ISBN: 0971816417
Category : Africa, North
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Oriental Odyssey: Travel adventures in Kurdistan
Author: Karl MayPublisher: Nemsi Books
ISBN: 0971816425
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Oriental Odyssey: Through the desert
Author: Karl MayPublisher: Nemsi Books
ISBN: 0971816409
Category : Africa, North
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Part one of Karl May's In the Shadow of the Padishah, this is a gripping first person narrative of a German traveler who encounters murder, a kidnapping, and war between Arabian tribes on his journey through the Middle East."
Go East, Young Man
Author: Richard FrancavigliaPublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 087421811X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Transference of orientalist images and identities to the American landscape and its inhabitants, especially in the West—in other words, portrayal of the West as the “Orient”—has been a common aspect of American cultural history. Place names, such as the Jordan River or Pyramid Lake, offer notable examples, but the imagery and its varied meanings are more widespread and significant. Understanding that range and significance, especially to the western part of the continent, means coming to terms with the complicated, nuanced ideas of the Orient and of the North American continent that European Americans brought to the West. Such complexity is what historical geographer Richard Francaviglia unravels in this book. Since the publication of Edward Said’s book, Orientalism, the term has come to signify something one-dimensionally negative. In essence, the orientalist vision was an ethnocentric characterization of the peoples of Asia (and Africa and the “Near East”) as exotic, primitive “others” subject to conquest by the nations of Europe. That now well-established point, which expresses a postcolonial perspective, is critical, but Francaviglia suggest that it overlooks much variation and complexity in the views of historical actors and writers, many of whom thought of western places in terms of an idealized and romanticized Orient. It likewise neglects positive images and interpretations to focus on those of a decadent and ostensibly inferior East. We cannot understand well or fully what the pervasive orientalism found in western cultural history meant, says Francaviglia, if we focus only on its role as an intellectual engine for European imperialism. It did play that role as well in the American West. One only need think about characterizations of American Indians as Bedouins of the Plains destined for displacement by a settled frontier. Other roles for orientalism, though, from romantic to commercial ones, were also widely in play. In Go East, Young Man, Francaviglia explores a broad range of orientalist images deployed in the context of European settlement of the American West, and he unfolds their multiple significances.
Journal of the American Oriental Society
Author: American Oriental SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oriental philology
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
List of members in each volume.
An Asian American Ancient Historian and Biblical Scholar
Author: Edwin M. YamauchiPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 665
Book Description
An Asian American Ancient Historian and Biblical Scholar is not simply a memoir of Edwin M. Yamauchi. It is an expansive multi-generational story of a Japanese–American family (Issei, Nisei, Sansei) that began with immigrants from Okinawa, who used a narrow window of time (1900–1915) to emigrate to Hawaii to work on the sugar plantations there. After the suicide of his father when he was three, Edwin was raised by his mother, who knew little English, by working as a maid for twelve years. Deprived of other distractions, Edwin turned to the reading of books. From a nominal Buddhist and then a nominal Episcopalian background, Edwin was converted to Christ at the age of fifteen and determined to become a missionary. Lacking in funds, he worked his way through college. With an aptitude for languages, he earned his PhD under Cyrus Gordon. After a short stint at Rutgers University in New Jersey, he enjoyed a long career (1969–2005) at Miami University in Ohio. His memoir includes descriptions of the schools, societies, scholars, and travels of his life, as well as his witness to Christ and his role in the establishment of a campus church.
The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal
Author: The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal
Author: Stephen Denison PeetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Video Source Book
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781414406299
Category : Video recordings
Languages : en
Pages : 1424
Book Description
A guide to programs currently available on video in the areas of movies/entertainment, general interest/education, sports/recreation, fine arts, health/science, business/industry, children/juvenile, how-to/instruction.
Oriental Odyssey: Caravan of the dead
Author: Karl MayPublisher: Nemsi Books
ISBN: 0971816433
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description