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Dislocating the Orient

British Maps and the Making of the Middle East, 1854-1921

By: Daniel Foliard

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Dislocating the Orient

British Maps and the Making of the Middle East, 1854-1921

By: Daniel Foliard

While the twentieth century’s conflicting visions and exploitation of the Middle East are well documented, the origins of the concept of the Middle East itself have been largely ignored. With Dislocating the Orient, Daniel Foliard tells the story of how the land was brought into being, exploring how maps, knowledge, and blind ignorance all participated in the construction of this imagined region. Foliard vividly illustrates how the British first defined the Middle East as a geopolitical and cartographic region in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through their imperial maps. Until then, the region had never been clearly distinguished from “the East” or “the Orient.” In the course of their colonial activities, however, the British began to conceive of the Middle East as a separate and distinct part of the world, with consequences that continue to be felt today. As they reimagined boundaries, the British produced, disputed, and finally dramatically transformed the geography of the area—both culturally and physically—over the course of their colonial era. Using a wide variety of primary texts and historical maps to show how the idea of the Middle East came into being, Dislocating the Orient will interest historians of the Middle East, the British empire, cultural geography, and cartography.

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University of Chicago Press

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022645147X

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The violence of colonial photography

By: Daniel Foliard

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The violence of colonial photography

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The late nineteenth century saw a rapid increase in colonial conflicts throughout the French and British empires. It was also the period in which the camera began to be widely available. Colonial authorities were quick to recognise the power of this new technology, which they used to humiliate defeated opponents and to project an image of supremacy across the world. Drawing on a wealth of visual materials, from soldiers’ personal albums to the collections of press agencies and government archives, this book offers a new account of how conflict photography developed in the decades leading up to the First World War. It explores the various ways in which the camera was used to impose order on subject populations in Africa and Asia and to generate propaganda for the public in Europe, where a visual economy of violence was rapidly taking shape. At the same time, it reveals how photographs could escape the intentions of their creators, offering a means for colonial subjects to push back against oppression.

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Manchester University Press

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1526163306

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The Violence of Colonial Photography

By: Daniel Foliard

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The Violence of Colonial Photography

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This book offers a new account of the development of conflict photography. It explores how the new technology of the camera was used in the British and French empires as a means of controlling subject populations, and how these populations found ways of turning the technology against their oppressors.

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Dislocating the Orient

British Maps and the Making of the Middle East, 1854-1921

By: Daniel Foliard

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British Maps and the Making of the Middle East, 1854-1921

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Dislocating the Orient

Dislocating the Orient

The violence of colonial photography

The violence of colonial photography

The Violence of Colonial Photography

The Violence of Colonial Photography

Dislocating the Orient

Dislocating the Orient

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