A Century Of British Orientalists, 1902-2001

Zusatztext A Century of British Orientalists provides plentiful material for reflection. Klappentext The evolution of Oriental Studies in Britain over the last century is traced in thirteen essays on key figures (twelve of them Fellows of the British Academy). They exemplify the outstanding contribution of British scholars to Oriental scholarship, within the general trend in the West to understand and interpret the civilisations of the East sympathetically. With important changes of methodology and approach to the cultures and religions of Asia, the twentieth century has been an exciting and fruitful period for Oriental Studies in Britain. Zusammenfassung The evolution of oriental studies in Britain over the last century is traced in 13 essays on key figures. They exemplify the contribution of British scholars to oriental scholarship, to understand and interpret the civilizations of the east sympathetically. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editor's Introduction Harold Walter Bailey Alfred Felix Landon Beeston Edward Granville Browne Gerard Leslie Makins Clauson Godfrey Rolles Driver Samuel Rolles Driver Alan Henderson Gardiner Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb Francis Llewellyn Griffith Vladimir Fed'orovich Minorsky Ralph Lilley Turner Arthur David Waley Richard Olaf Winstedt

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• Authors: C. Edmund Bosworth
• Assisted by: C Edmund Bosworth (Editor), C. Edmund Bosworth (Editor), Professor Clifford Edmund Bosworth (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2001
• EAN: 9780197262436
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726243-6
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 240 mm x 20 mm
• Series: British Academy Centenary Monographs; British Academy Centenary Monographs; British Academy Centenary Mono
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries