British Encounters with Syrian-Mesopotamian Overland Routes to India, 1751-1795: Rethinking Enlightenment Improvement

by Mohammad Sakhnini

As this book shows, different British responses to the material conditions of the Arab region and its inhabitants were mapped onto some British debates about the viability of modern commercial societies and the apparently intractable problem of securing a more benign relationship between material advance and virtue, modernity and traditions, improvement and backwardness. These debates reflected some significant transformations of the period: fears...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178527936X
• ISBN13: 9781785279362
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"