From Cairo to Baghdad
Auteur: James Canton
Nombre de pages: 297 pages
ISBN: 075560881X, 9780755608812
Edition: Distributed in the U.S. and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Date de publication: Distributed in the U.S. and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Description: "[This] is a major contribution to our understanding of British interest in, and understanding of, the Middle East between the occupation of Egypt in 1882 and the invasion of Iraq in 2003. James Canton deftly probes into ways that travel writing produced during this period was unavoidably caught up and complicit in the twin developments of mass tourism and imperialism. Organized chronologically and thematically, this study reveals a much richer and more complex range of cultural interactions and mutual engagements than the still powerful notion of a clash between civilisations."--...