Culture and Imperialism

'Edward Said helps us to understand who we are and what we must do if we aspire to be moral agents, not servants of power.' Noam Chomsky. Following his profoundly influential study, Orientalism, Edward Said now examines western culture. From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, from Yeats to media coverage of the Gulf War, Culture and Imperialism is a broad, fierce and wonderfully readable account of the roots of imperialism in European culture.