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The birth of orientalism
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- Creator
- Urs App
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]
- ©2010
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 550 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0812223462, 0812242610, 9780812200058, 0812200055, 1283889439, 9781283889438, 9780812242614
- OCLC
- ocn527702679, on1013936377, ocn979881020, ocn794700616
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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