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      Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity

      Saree Makdisi (University of Chicago)

      This book traces the emergence of new forms of imperialism and capitalism as part of a culture of modernisation in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. It looks at…

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      Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial

      Saree Makdisi

      How denial sustains the liberal imagination of a progressive and democratic Israel. The question that this book aims to answer might seem simple: how can a violent project of dispossession…

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      Tolerance Is a Wasteland

      Saree Makdisi

      How denial sustains the liberal imagination of a progressive and democratic Israel.

      The question that this book aims to answer might seem simple: how can a violent project of dispossession…

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      William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s

      Saree Makdisi

      Modern scholars often find it difficult to account for the profound eccentricities in the work of William Blake, dismissing them as either ahistorical or simply meaningless. In this study, however…

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      William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s

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      Taking into account Blake’s unique brand of literary and artistic production, Makdisi challenges the idea that to understand Blake one must assimilate him within the radical struggle against the order…

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      Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture

      Saree Makdisi

      The central argument of Edward Said’s Orientalism is that the relationship between Britain and its colonies was primarily oppositional, based on contrasts between conquest abroad and domestic order at home…

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      Making England Western

      Saree Makdisi

      States that the relationship between Britain and its colonies was primarily oppositional, based on contrasts between conquest abroad and domestic order at home. Revealing that romanticism provided a way to…

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      Reading William Blake

      Saree Makdisi (University of California, Los Angeles)

      Saree Makdisi offers a fresh and imaginative approach to reading William Blake, grounded in the latest research. This unique study inspires a deeper understanding of Blake’s creative processes and encourages…

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      Reading William Blake

      Saree Makdisi (University of California, Los Angeles)

      Saree Makdisi offers a fresh and imaginative approach to reading William Blake, grounded in the latest research. This unique study inspires a deeper understanding of Blake’s creative processes and encourages…

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      Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation

      Saree Makdisi

      Reveals how the ‘peace process’ institutionalised Palestinians’ loss of control over their lives. Through statistics and day-by-day reports, this title helps to learn how Palestinians have seen their hopes for…

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      The Arabian Nights in Historical Context: Between East and West

      In the 300 hundred years following the translation of The Arabian Nights into French and English, a chain of editions, compilations, translations, and variations has circled the globe. Here scholars…

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      Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution

      Drawing on examples from different local and regional contexts,Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution demonstrates the many remarkably local ways that revolution and empire were experienced in London…

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      Marxism Beyond Marxism

      These essays critically rethink Marxism in the light of the disintegration of communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. In examining Marxism’s relationship to cultural practices, the contributors…

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      Marxism Beyond Marxism

      These essays critically rethink Marxism in the light of the disintegration of communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. In examining Marxism’s relationship to cultural practices, the contributors…

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