Six postcards from Arabia: A visual discourse of colonial travels in the Orient

Tourist Studies

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 255-275

  Burns, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

colonialism Middle East; orientalism; postcards; visual evidence; Walter Benjamin

Indexed keywords

EID: 27344450226     PISSN: 14687976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468797604057327     Document Type: Article

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