"This is a book of enormous power and influence. It stands as the classic statement of linkage between colonialism and imperialism that issued in the Eurocentric portrait of the 'Orient' in European literature. Even if the thesis is overstated, the work has, for good or ill, informed everything subsequently written on the subject."

Recommended by Erich S. Gruen, Professor of History and Classics and author of Rethinking the Other in Antiquity.