TY  - GEN
T1  - Enlightenment Orientalism in the American mind, 1770-1807
T2  - Perspectives on early America ;
A1  - Pangborn, Matthew H.
LA  - English
PP  - New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1051777453
AB  - "This study engages with the emerging field of energy humanities to provide close readings of several early American oriental-observer tales. The popular genre of orientalism offered Americans a means to critique new ideas of identity, history, and nationality accompanying protoindustrialization and a growing consumerism. The tales thus express a complex self-reflection during a time when America's exploitation of its energy resources and its engagement in a Franco-British world-system was transforming the daily life of its citizens. The genre of the oriental observer, this study argues, offers intriguing glimpses of a nation becoming strange in the eyes of its own inhabitants"--
CN  - DS61.85
SN  - 9780429434228
SN  - 0429434227
SN  - 9780429784347
SN  - 0429784341
SN  - 9781138358676
KW  - Orientalism : United States : History : 18th century.
KW  - Orientalism : United States : History : 19th century.
KW  - Energy consumption : United States : History.
KW  - Middle East : Foreign public opinion, American.
KW  - Asia : Foreign public opinion, American.
KW  - Orientalisme : États-Unis : Histoire : 18e siècle.
KW  - Orientalisme : États-Unis : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Énergie : Consommation : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : General.
KW  - Energy consumption
KW  - Orientalism
KW  - Public opinion, American
KW  - Asia
KW  - Middle East
KW  - United States
KW  - 1700-1899
KW  - History
ER  -