Culture and Imperialism

Nice, and good quality.

Didnt receive the edition in the picture but it was still the Vintage one. Great book and good quality paper

Item is as described - arrived in good time

The Age of Empire, a term coined by historian Eric Hobsbawm in his classic anthology narrating the rise of European Bourgeois society and industrial capitalism, seems long behind us. The very notion today seems like a crumbling relic, imperialism being a code word for a long dead political project, a yellowing photograph of Rhodes and Stanley sitting strident as Atlas over Africa, comes to mind whenever the term is brought up. But Said in his magnus opus asks the question: “what if imperialism was not simply a political project born of European realpolitik, but a whole encompassing form of thought and more importantly cultural production, one which very much still lingers in our collective unconscious and very ontology of the quotidian?” That’s the main focus of his now classical text in comparative literature, and Said does an incredible job of filling out how the concept, as vague as it may sound, of imperialism effaced every monument of European culture and in a way modern American culture throughout the long 19th century and up to the present day. An eye opening read for anyone interested not only in literature but historiography and post colonialism.

Good book on Culture and imperialism.

Ich kann sagen, dass die Qualität sehr gut ist und Ich mag den Inhalt. Ich erhielt auch das Buch zum richtigen Zeitpunkt.