German orientalism
Subtitle: the study of the Middle East and Islam from 1800 to 1945
By: Ursula Wokoeck.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780415464901; 9780203880081
Subjects: Orientalism -- Germany; Orient -- Study and teaching
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Working at the university; title: Writings and writers on the Middle East; title: The establishment of modern Oriental studies; title: The beginning of differentiation: Sanskrit and Semitic languages; title: The emergence of Assyriology; title: Islamic studies: the emergence of a (sub-)discipline?; title: The primacy of political factors: 1933-45.