The world beyond the West : perspectives from Eastern Europe /: perspectives from Eastern Europe. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Mariusz Kalczewiak, Magdalena Kozłowska.
• Editors: Kalczewiak, Mariusz, 1987-; Kozłowska, Magdalena
• Contents: Introduction Part I: Affirming and Contesting the Empire Chapter 1. Constructing “Aziatchina”: An Apology for Perceived Own “Emptiness” in Russian National and Imperial Discourses, 1828-1918; Batir Xasanov Chapter 2. Involuntary Orientalists: Polish Exiles and Adventurers as Observers of the Kazakh Steppe and the Caucasus; Curtis G. Murphy Chapter 3. “These Sufferers, Constantly Lamenting Their Bitter Fate”: The Image of the Mountain Jews in the Writings of Joseph Judah Chorny and Ilya Anisimov; Mateusz Majman Part II: Creating the Other: Travel and Migration Chapter 4. The East-West Dichotomy Disrupted: Triangulation and Reflections on the Imperial View in Hungarian Perceptions of North America; Balázs Venkovits Chapter 5. Negogiating Empires—Orientalism and Jewish Responses to the Palestinian Refugee Crisis of 1914/15 in Egypt; Jonathan Hirsch Chapter 6. From Exotic Adventure to Victimization to Estrangement: Imagining “Africa” through the Eyes of Czechoslovak Travel Writers (1950s-1980s); Barbora Buzássyová Part III: Representations and Fantasies Chapter 7. Land Flowing with Milk and Honey. Polish Maritime and River/Colonial League’s depictions of South America; Marta Grzechnik Chapter 8. Between Post-Imperial Expansion and Promethean Mission: Africa and Africans in Interwar Polish Colonial Discourse; Piotr Puchalski Chapter 9. Eastern Promises: Romanian Responses to the Vietnam War; Jill Massino Afterword ; Magdalena Kozłowska and Mariusz Kałczewiak
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 947.000904; East Europeans -- Attitudes; East Europeans -- Travel; East Europeans -- Politics and government; Public opinion -- Europe, Eastern; Europe, Eastern -- Foreign relations; Europe, Eastern -- Emigration and immigration
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800733534
• Related ISBNs: 9781800733527
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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