When Orientalism Becomes a Career: From James Mill to Jared Kushner

When Orientalism Becomes a Career: From James Mill to Jared Kushner

In Benjamin Disraeli’s 1847 novel Tancred, there is a short line that Edward Said would return to more than a century later: “The East is a career.” Five words. But they tell us rather a lot. For generations of ambitious Western men, the East was not merely somewhere to visit, study, or govern. Knowledge of […]