Terror and Toleration: The Habsburg Empire Confronts Islam, 1526-1850.(Book review)

Canadian Journal of History | March 22, 2009| | Copyright

Terror and Toleration: The Habsburg Empire Confronts Islam, 1526-1850, by Paula Sutter Fichtner. London, Reaktion Books, 2008. 205 pp. $45.00 US (cloth).

In the nearly thirty years since the appearance of Edward Said's Orientalism, scholars from across the humanities have reshaped our understanding of the complicated ways in which power, politics, scholarship, and curiosity have interacted to shape Western perceptions of Islam. Paula Sutter Fichtner, an eminent historian of Habsburg political history, makes a valuable contribution to this scholarly effort with her ...

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