{"product_id":"enlightenment-orientalism-in-the-american-mind-1770-1807","title":"Enlightenment Orientalism in the American Mind, 1770-1807","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45590326706414,"sku":"9780367585839","price":67.19,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/enlightenment-orientalism-in-the-american-mind-1770-1807","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}