A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world.

Chapter 1.Thescope of Orientalism -- Knowing the Oriental -- Imaginative geography and its representations : Orientalizing the Oriental -- Projects -- Crisis -- Chapter 2. Orientalist structures and restructures -- Redrawn frontiers, redefined issues, secularized religion -- Silverstre de Sacy and ernest Renan : rational anthropology and philological laboratory -- Oriental residence and scholarship : the requirements of lexicography and imagination -- Pilgrims and pilgrimages, British and French -- Chapter 3. Orientalism now -- Latent and manifest Orientalism -- Style, expertise, vision : Orientalism and fullest flower -- Modern Anglo-French Orientalism in fullest flower -- The latest phase.