British imperial presence was conceived as permanently transforming the Orient

Evidence

Unlike the Americans, the French and the British—less so the Germans, Russians, Spanish, Portuguese, Italians, and Swiss—have had a long tradition of what I shall be calling Orientalism, a way of coming to terms with the Orient that is based on the Orient’s special place in European Western experience. The Orient is not only adjacent to Europe; it is also the place of Europe’s greatest and richest and oldest colonies, the source of its civilizations and languages, its cultural contestant, and one of its deepest and most recurring images of the Other. In addition, the Orient has helped to define Europe (or the West) as its contrasting image, idea, personality, experience. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 52 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: British occupation was seen as killing the imagined Orient; Imperial theses produced the Orient as a space to be cultivated and possessed; The Orient was made Oriental through power and domination, not imagination alone (+4 more)

Related

• British occupation was seen as killing the imagined Orient (similarity 0.89)
• The Orient was made Oriental through power and domination, not imagination alone (similarity 0.89)
• Knowledge of the Orient requires conceiving it as ruled by Europe (similarity 0.88)
• Europe’s literary repertoire of the Orient half-imagined settings and figures. (similarity 0.88)
• Europe defined itself through a material and cultural image of the Orient (similarity 0.88)
• European knowledge of the Orient assembled a restricted archive of tropes that controlled novelty (similarity 0.87)
• European modernity defines itself through relation to alien past cultures. (similarity 0.86)
• Eighteenth-century comparative history confronted the Orient partly to know Europe itself (similarity 0.86)
• Europe’s doubt about Oriental novelty serves as its cultural weapon (similarity 0.86)
• Western scholarly handling turned the Orient from alien into colonial space (similarity 0.85)
• British control of the Orient depended on constantly refined knowledge of it (similarity 0.85)
• European knowledge of the Orient shifted from textual contemplation to administrative and military appropriation (similarity 0.85)
• Orientalism expanded from scholarly practice to signify imperialist ideology (similarity 0.85)
• Orientalism is chiefly a British and French enterprise, later American. (similarity 0.85)
• British colonial power rested on actual territorial presence in the Orient (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Imperial theses produced the Orient as a space to be cultivated and possessed #corroborates (0.90)
• The Orient was made Oriental through power and domination, not imagination alone #expands (0.85)
• Europe defined itself through a material and cultural image of the Orient #expands (0.80) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 52
• European knowledge of the Orient shifted from textual contemplation to administrative and military appropriation #qualifies (0.75) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 522