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  • Looking East[electronic resource] :English writing and the Ottoman Empire before 1800 /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 820.9/32561
    Title/Author: Looking East : English writing and the Ottoman Empire before 1800 // Gerald MacLean.
    Author: MacLean, Gerald M.,
    Published: Basingstoke [England] ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2007.
    Description: xiii, 300 p. : : ill., maps
    Subject: Great Britain - Fiction.
    Subject: Turkey - History - To 1453.
    ISBN: 9780230591844
    ISBN: 0230591841
    [NT 15000227]: Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-289) and index.
    [NT 15000228]: Introduction : Islam, the Ottomans and early modern England -- The English encounter the Ottoman world -- The English abroad : travellers, traders, captives and colonists in the Ottoman Mediterranean -- Performing East and captive agency -- On turning Turk, or trying to : Robert Daborne's A Christian turn'd Turke -- The sultan's beasts : encounteringOttoman fauna -- The making of the British imperial subject -- Learn of a Turk : restoration culture and the Ottoman Empire -- A view from the West : young American writing about the Maghrib -- A view from the East : Don Juan in England -- Epilogue : by way of conclusion.
    [NT 15000229]: Looking East examines how English encounters with the Ottoman Empirehelped shape national identities and imperial ambitions at a time whenthe English were seeking to find a place for themselvesin the larger world beyond ther insular realm. Engagingly written in an accessible style that will appeal to non-academic readers as well as scholars, this book demonstrates how the so-called 'conflict of civilizations' separating the Muslim East from the Christian West is a false and dangerous myth.
    Online resource: access to fulltext (Palgrave)
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