Colonial expansion widened geographic knowledge but kept Europe at the privileged center

Evidence

Said’s Orientalism is not a book about the Orient per se. It is a book that analyzes Western discourse about the Orient, including Islam and Arab peoples, and how this discourse relates to Western domination over the Orient in light of the colonial projects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 206 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Eighteenth-century comparative history confronted the Orient partly to know Europe itself; Sixteenth-century voyages expanded physical but not cultural horizons of Europeans; Orientalist scholarship expanded in tandem with European imperial conquest. (+3 more)

Related

• Orientalist scholarship expanded in tandem with European imperial conquest. (similarity 0.92)
• Orient studies served Europe’s needs, not Asia’s reality (similarity 0.89)
• European knowledge of the Orient shifted from textual contemplation to administrative and military appropriation (similarity 0.88)
• British control of the Orient depended on constantly refined knowledge of it (similarity 0.88)
• Western scholarly discourse about the Orient was entangled with colonial domination (similarity 0.87)
• Knowledge of the Orient requires conceiving it as ruled by Europe (similarity 0.87)
• Orientalism expanded from scholarly practice to signify imperialist ideology (similarity 0.87)
• For imperial discourse, knowledge of the Orient constitutes power over it (similarity 0.87)
• Orientalism’s institutional growth tracked European colonial expansion from 1815 to 1914 (similarity 0.87)
• Eighteenth-century comparative history confronted the Orient partly to know Europe itself (similarity 0.87)
• The colonized colonizer outlook emerged fully by the 1870s (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial knowledge treats Orientals as a fixed Platonic essence (similarity 0.86)
• Europeans claimed to possess the Orient’s souls beyond territorial power (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial expansion and Orientalist essentializing emerged together in the nineteenth century. (similarity 0.86)
• British Oriental imagination was constrained by actual colonial possession (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Western scholarly discourse about the Orient was entangled with colonial domination #corroborates (0.80) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 206
• Sixteenth-century voyages expanded physical but not cultural horizons of Europeans #expands (0.78)
• Eighteenth-century comparative history confronted the Orient partly to know Europe itself #expands (0.75)
• Orientalist scholarship expanded in tandem with European imperial conquest. #corroborates (0.75)
• European knowledge of the Orient shifted from textual contemplation to administrative and military appropriation #expands (0.75) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 522
• Colonial settlers’ attention was selective, not panoptic, and oriented to Europe #expands (0.75)