The Online Books Page

Orientalism

Here are entered works on Western views of Asia or the Middle East and/or adoption of characteristics of Asian or Middle Eastern culture by Westerners.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• East and West
• Asia -- Foreign public opinion, Western
• Middle East -- Foreign public opinion, Western

• Orientalism -- Encyclopedias
• Orientalism -- Fiction
• Orientalism -- Study and teaching
• Orientalism in art
• Orientalism in literature

• Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1991), by Lisa Lowe (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Internationales Taschenbuch für Orientalisten (first edition of what aimed to be an annual guide, in German; Halle a. Salle and New York: R. Haupt, 1907), ed. by Rudolf Haupt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Internationales Taschenbuch für Orientalisten (second edition, in German; Leipzig: R. Haupt, 1910), ed. by Rudolf Haupt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Razor's Edge (c1944), by W. Somerset Maugham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Interrogating Orientalism: Contextual Approaches and Pedagogical Practices (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), ed. by Diane Long Hoeveler and Jeffrey Cass (PDF at Ohio State)

• Orientalism: Visions of the East in Western Dress (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1994), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Interrogating Orientalism: Contextual Approaches and Pedagogical Practices (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), ed. by Diane Long Hoeveler and Jeffrey Cass (PDF at Ohio State)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Bases of Values in a Time of Change: Chinese and Western (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1999), ed. by Kirti Bunchua, Liu Fangtong, Yu Xuanmeng, and Yu Xujin (multiple formats at Google)
• Turkey in Europe, and Europe in Turkey, by Turgut Özal (HTML at loc.gov)

• The Naulahka: A Story of West and East, by Rudyard Kipling and Charles Wolcott Balestier (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• A Desert Drama: Being the Tragedy of the Korosko (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1898), by Arthur Conan Doyle, illust. by Sidney Paget
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Persian Letters (English translation; London: G. Routledge and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., ca. 1891), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, ed. by John Davidson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Revolutionary Rexroth: Poet of East-West Wisdom (electronic edition), by Morgan Gibson (HTML at Light and Dust)