Imperial ambition converted scholarly Orientalist study into active colonization

Evidence

Almost an entire century of what now seemed passive study of the Orient had had to end, as France faced up to its transnational responsibilities during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 553

Categorization

• XREF: Illustrates the latent-to-manifest shift where scholarship becomes pretext for colonial action, central to the chapter’s argument. — connects to: Napoleon’s 1798 invasion inaugurated the systematic use of scholarly knowledge to serve empire
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 553