Frontier Fictions
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: January 10, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780691004976
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; Asian studies; Nationalism; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; History: World; Iran - History; History - General History; Middle East - Iran; Iran; Political History; Anthropology; History / Middle East; Middle Eastern Studies; Political Science and International Relations; General; Middle East - General; 19th century; Geographical perception; History
First sentence: LONG BEFORE the French Revolution an anonymous geographer of the tenth century had already imagined the "boundaries of the world" (hudud al-'alam) as comprising distinct regions (nahiyat).